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

The Secretary of State to the Russian Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, October 30, 1905.

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I beg to inform you that the Secretary of the Navy had advised me that on the 26th instant he received a telegram from the commandant of the navy-yard at Mare Island, Cal., in which he stated that the Lena left the yard for San Francisco on that date, and would sail thence on Sunday, October 29.

I am, etc.,

Elihu Root.