Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Adee to Count Cassini.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 15, 1904.

The admiral at San Francisco advises me this morning that the captain of the Lena writes him that the ship being unseaworthy must disarm, and asks to be allowed to make needed repairs. When the President shall have approved the conditions necessary to insure the neutralization of the Lena and her officers and crew until the end of the war, and to permit necessary repairs, the admiral will be instructed to cause the disarmament to be effected, whereupon I shall have pleasure in advising you further.

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary of State.