Office of the Historian

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Denby.

[Telegram.]
No. 65.]
Department of State,
Washington, November 6, 1894.

Prompted by that sincere friendship which the United States constantly desire to show toward China, the President directs that you intimate his readiness to tender his good offices toward bringing the present war with Japan to a close on terms alike honorable to both nations should he be assured that such a tender would be acceptable to both.