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. 151.096/28.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, April 4, 1912.

I am requested by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to instruct certain consuls to visa Section 6 certificates issued by local provisional government. Would compliance with this request involve recognition of the present administration?

Calhoun.