Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.002/20.

The President of the Council of Ministers to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Translation.]

Peking ([undated;] received July 7, 1912).

In announcing to your excellency my appointment to be President of the Council of Ministers, I desire to assure you that my efforts still tend to maintain and draw even closer the relations of friendship between our two countries. At the same time I permit myself to express the hope that the United States will recognize without delay the Chinese Republic.

Lou Tseng Tsiang.