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

Chargé Eddy to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, November 21, 1905.

(Mr. Eddy reports that under an imperial proclamation published to-day payments during 1906 on land granted to the peasants will be diminished by a half, and on January 1, 1907, they will cease entirely, the peasants then becoming the owners of the land. Increased facility is given by the Emperor to the peasants’ bank to advance money to the peasants who have not yet taken up the land so that they may profit by this new arrangement.)