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. 15984.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 9, 1908.

(Mr. Root instructs Mr. O’Brien to request the provisional arrest and detention of Yoshitaro Abe, who is charged with forgery in Hawaii, where warrant has been issued, and who is understood to be under arrest at Yokohama.)