Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 18, 1903.

(Mr. Hay directs Mr. Conger, in view of conflicting statements of Chinese about opening new localities in Manchuria to foreign trade, to obtain from the Chinese Government a written statement of its objections to complying with the request of the United States and of what it proposes instead.)