Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, February 9, 1904.

(Mr. Choate states that Lord Lansdowne asks whether Manchuria is within the phrase “neutrality of China” and whether it is under stood that Japan should preclude herself from activity in that province of China in spite of Russia’s occupation and of which the latter might make use as a base of military operations.)