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

Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, May 17, 1905.

(Mr. Meyer reports that an imperial ukase was issued on May 17 for restoring the election of nobles in Poland and conferring upon the Poles the right to rent and purchase land, and the minister of the interior is to report ways and means to carry this into effect. Under certain conditions the Lithuanian and Polish languages are permitted in the schools of Poland and more freedom is granted for the use of the Polish language in general.)