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. 15984/2.

Ambassador O’Brien to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, October 15, 1908.

Mr. O’Brien, referring to the department’s telegrams of October 9 and 10,¹ concerning the arrest of Yoshitaro Abe, informs Mr. Root that, as the man is Japanese, the foreign office requests assurance that the United States will reciprocate under similar circumstances in the future. Mr. O’Brien refers to Mr. Griscom’s No. 23, dated November, 1903.¹

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