Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
February 16, 1907.

No. 253.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 499, of the 7th ultimo, in which you confirm your telegram of the 5th ultimo, reporting the receipt by the consul-general at Canton of the sum of $25,000 gold paid by the Chinese Government as indemnity for the Lienchou massacre.

The dispatch has been read with interest, and your course in the matter has been approved by the department.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.