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

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Pekin, China, December 22, 1900.

(Mr. Conger acknowledges the Department’s telegram of the 21st, and reports that he has signed the note that day (22d) after again stating the Department’s views. He adds that the note will be handed on the 24th to the Chinese plenipotentiaries.)