File No. 894.4054/17
The Japanese Embassy to the Department of State
The Japanese Embassy has been informed by the Japanese Consul at Seattle that seven “picture brides” arrived per S. S. Canada Maru on the 26th of May and are actually detained at their own expense at the immigrant station at that port until the presentation of the certified copies of the notification of marriage which they were not provided with.
The Embassy begs to request the State Department to be good enough to see its way, as soon as may be possible, to arrange for their temporary admittance on the assurance by the Japanese Consul for the presentation by the parties concerned of the necessary documents at a later date.
Washington , June 8, 1917 .