Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

File No. 24074/14.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Calhoun.

Department of State,
Washington, June 29, 1910.

No. 32.]

Sir: The department is in receipt of your dispatch No. 17, of May 12 last, inclosing copy of the legation’s instruction of the same day to the consulate general at Hankow as to what may properly be included in claims for losses incurred in the recent riots at Changsha; also an article from the North China Daily News on the subject.

Your instruction to the consulate general has the department’s approval.

I am, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.