Chargé Eddy to the Secretary of State.
St. Petersburg, October 31, 1905.
(Mr. Eddy reports that 103 Japanese officers and 1,956 soldiers are held in the Russian Empire as prisoners of war. Ninety-nine officers and 1,732 soldiers, including 215 sick and wounded, are in European Russia and will be sent out of the country via Wirballen. It is proposed that the commanders in chief of the Japanese and Russian armies arrange for the exchange of the 4 Japanese officers and 224 soldiers who are still at the seat of war. Partly on account of recent disturbances the date of the dispatch of the prisoners from European Russia has not yet been decided upon.)