Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 13329/1–3.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 1, 1908.

Mr. Root instructs Mr. O’Brien to convey appropriate expressions of the President’s and Government’s sympathy with the Japanese Government in the terrible disaster resulting from the explosion on the Matsushima.