Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 18063/4.

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, February 23, 1909.

Sir: Referring to a dispatch, No. 37, addressed to the legation by the consulate at Nanking, and your instruction No. 1760 in reply, relative to the right of an American citizen to buy and sell real estate inside the walls of Nanking City, you are informed that the department approves the instruction mentioned and has advised Mr. McNally.

I am, etc,

Robert Bacon.