Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Rockhill.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 27, 1909.

Mr. Rockhill is advised that it. was the intention of the department that he communicate to the Russian foreign office a paraphrase of the full text of the memorandum contained in the telegram of November 6, omitting, as a matter of propriety, only the reference to the secret edict in the opening paragraph.