Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part II

The Secretary of State to the Japanese Chargé.

Department of State,
Washington, February 7, 1906.

No. 258.]

Sir: In answer to your note No. 12, of the 5th instant, I have to inform you that the American ambassador to Russia was instructed by telegraph, on the 7th instant, to hand over the Japanese legation at St. Petersburg to Mr. Tano, third secretary of legation, who has been ordered by Mr. Motono, the new Japanese minister to Russia, to proceed directly to St. Petersburg on the 8th instant.

Accept, etc,

Elihu Root.