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

Mr. McCormick to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg , August 10, 1904 .

(Mr. McCormick reports the decision of the prize court confiscating all the cargo of the Arabia consigned to Japan and the release of the vessel and the balance of the cargo, and that the attention of the minister for foreign affairs has been called to the discrepancy in the decision confiscating the cargo while not mentioning it as contraband.)