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

Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, August 10, 1904.

(Mr. Choate reports that Lord Lansdowne verbally protested emphatically to the Russian Ambassador on the 10th instant against treatment by his Government as absolutely contraband, without considering destination, articles which are generally considered so only conditionally, aggravated by their harsh mode of enforcing their contention by sinking neutral ships carrying such articles without giving them a hearing.)