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. 13329/4–5.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.

Department of State,
Washington, June 5, 1908.

Sir: The department approves your note of May 2, 1908, to the Japanese minister for foreign affairs upon the occasion of the explosion on board the Japanese ship of war Matsushima, copy of which you inclose with your dispatch No. 309, of the same date.

I am, etc.

E. Root.