Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, December 22, 1906.

No. 227.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 381, of the 28th of August last, inclosing a copy of the draft agreement which you submitted to the Wai-wu Pu on the 21st of that month, for the settlement of the indemity for the Lienchou massacre.

The matter has been under negotiation with the Chinese minister at this capital, and has just come to a satisfactory conclusion, as the legation was informed by the department’s telegram of the 13th instant, which reads as follows, and which I now confirm.^a

I am, etc.,

E. Root.

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