Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Embassy of the United States,
St. Petersburg, June 20, 1900.

[Mr. Tower reports the readiness of the Russian Government to sign protocol, and its insistence upon the use of French as the language of arbitration; otherwise communications will be made by Russia in Russian and by us in English.

Refers to dispatch No. 214, of April 14, 1900, and requests instructions in the matter.]