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

Mr. Hay to Mr. McCormick.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 16, 1904.

(Mr. Hay informs Mr. McCormick that it is reported that the British steamer Calchas was seized by the Russian naval authorities and taken to Vladivostok with her cargo, which included consignments of raw cotton to the order of Americans in the ordinary course of trade with Japan, and instructs him to request the release of the cotton and other noncontraband American goods.)