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 II

File No. 6351/42.

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, August 22, 1907.

(States that China has made formal protest to France and Japan against the clause in a recent agreement between them which provides for mutual support in the maintenance of peace and order in the parts of China adjacent to their territories, and says that China states that the matter pertains to her alone. Mr. Rockhill adds that the protest has not been replied to.)