Mr. Hardy to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Hardy reports that the views of the United States Government, as expressed in Department’s telegram of the 10th instant, are adhered to generically by the Government of Spain, but not to any concrete proposition in regard to the neutrality of China.a)

  1. On this subject see circular of February 20, 1904, printed on p. 2.