Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 3, 1894

Mr. Denby to Mr. Gresham.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Peking, August 20, 1894. (Received August 21.)

China and Japan were both willing to exempt merchant vessels of the other from seizure, but the negotiations have failed because Japan wished her merchant vessels to continue coming to China, and the Yamên could not revoke imperial order to destroy Japanese ships entering Chinese ports.