Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

The following note has just been received from the foreign office, which I transmit in full:

“I have not failed to place before my august master the telegraphic communication which your excellency has been pleased to transmit to me under instructions of your government.

“His Majesty, much moved by the sentiments expressed by the President, is glad to find in it a new proof of the traditional friendship which unites Russia to the United States of America, as well as an evidence of the high value which Mr. Roosevelt attaches, even as His Imperial Majesty does, to that universal peace so essential to the welfare and progress of all humanity.

“With regard to the eventual meeting of Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries, ‘in order to see if it is not possible for the two powers to agree to terms of peace,’ the Imperial Government has no objection in principle to this endeavor if the Japanese Government expresses a like desire.”

Meyer.