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

Mr. Townsend to Mr. Hay.

American Legation,
Brussels, February 17, 1904.

No. 217.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of cablegram of 16th instant.

I am glad that my view of the scope of the original proposition in regard to the neutrality of China, as explained yesterday to the minister for foreign affairs and outlined in my dispatch No. 216, of 16th instant, has been thus, in a measure, confirmed by the Department.

I have the honor to be, etc.,

Lawrence Townsend.

[Note.—On this subject see circular instruction of February 20, 1904, p. 2.]