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

The Acting Secretary of State to the Japanese Chargé.

Department of State,
Washington , April 18, 1905 .

Dear Mr. Hioki: I beg leave to inclose a copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, by which it appears that an American examining board finds that Commander A. N. Ritchagoff, executive officer of the Russian transport Lena, ought to be sent to Russia for treatment at the naval hospital at Kronstadt.

Will you kindly ascertain and advise me whether I may say to the Secretary of the Navy that the Japanese Government has no objection to granting permission to Commander Ritchagoff to return to Russia on an indefinite leave of absence for the purpose indicated.

I am, etc.,

F. B. Loomis.