Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Jusserand to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]

French Embassy ,
February 13, 1904 .

Mr. Secretary of State:

My Government has just communicated to me that the Russian and Japanese Governments having officially advised it of the state of war existing between them it had decided to conform, in order to observe neutrality, to the principles set down by the circular published in the official journal of the Republic on April 27, 1898.^a I consider it my duty to bring these intentions to the knowledge of your excellency and to mention that the above-named circular has been communicated by my predecessor to the Department of State on the 11th of May, 1898.

Please accept, etc.,

Jusserand.

1. Printed in Foreign Relations 1898, p. 862.