Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 4, 1905.

Say to British Government that I have advised Secretary Commerce and Labor to inform American fishermen this government will not support evasion of Newfoundland law by taking men across 3-mile line for enlistment and bringing them back, as described in the Reuter’s dispatch reported by you November 3.

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