Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Mr. Hay to Mr. Vignaud.

Department of State,
Washington, September 6, 1899.

No. 664.]

Sir: I have to inclose, for your confidential information, copies of instructions I have sent under this date to the United States ambassadors at London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg in reference to the desire of this Government that the Governments of Great Britain, Germany, and Russia make formal declaration of an “open-door” policy in the territories held by them in China.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.

Inclosures.

To London, No. 205, September 6, 1899, printed page 131.

To Berlin, No. 927, September 6, 1899, printed page 129.

To St. Petersburg, No. 82, September 6, 1899, printed page 140.