The Acting Secretary of
State to Ambassador O’Brien.
Department of State,
Washington, July 6,
1910.
No. 444.]
Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 1160, of
May 10, 1910, transmitting copy of a memorandum dated May 9, from the
Japanese foreign office, relative to the proposed alternative procedure
for the international prize court, I have to inclose herewith draft of a
memorandum on the same subject which you are instructed to present to
the Government of Japan.
I am, sir,
[Inclosure.]
Memorandum reply of Department of
State.
The Government of the United States notes with great satisfaction
that the views of the Imperial Japanese Government relative to the
proposed alternative procedure for the international prize court
expressed in its memorandum of May 9, 1910, are in such general
accord with the propositions of the identic circular note of the
Department of State of October 18, 1909.
The Government of the United States recognizes most fully the value
of the suggestions upon the subject made by the Imperial Japanese
Government, and it believes that these suggestions will be found to
have been met by the provisions of the additional protocol which is
being brought to the attention of the various powers signatory to
the convention for the establishment of the international court of
prize by the circular note of the Government of the Netherlands of
May 24.
In view of the assent of the Imperial Japanese Government to the
principle of the alternative procedure suggested by the identic note
of the Government of the United States of October 18, 1909, and what
is believed to be the complete compliance of the additional protocol
with the suggestions of the Imperial Japanese Government, the
Government of the United States entertains the liveliest hope that
the additional protocol will meet with the approval of the Imperial
Japanese Government.
