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 Ambassador Meyer.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 19, 1905.

(Mr. Adee transmits the proposal of the Japanese Government in regard to the exchange of prisoners of war immediately after the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty. The Japanese Government proposes to hand over the Russian prisoners and others detained in Japan at the ports of Nagasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama, and to receive the Japanese prisoners and others detained in Russia at the western frontier of that country. The Japanese Government request that the above proposal be brought to the attention of the Russian Government, and that assent thereto be obtained by the American embassy. This subject having important relation to the preparatory arrangements for the exchange of the prisoners, Japan would appreciate a prompt reply.)