Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Conger to Mr. Day.

Legation of the United States,
Peking, China, September 17, 1898.

No. 47.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s instruction No. 9, of July 23 last, in regard to the viséing of passports of persons going to the territory recently ceded by China to Russia, and in reply to state that I am informed by the Russian chargé d’affaires, Mr. Pavlow, that the regulations concerning the visé of passports of foreigners going to Russia do not apply at Port Arthur or other points in the Liao-tung ceded to Russia, nor are they on arrival at any of these places obliged to have passports previously visaed at the Russian consulate or legation.

I have, etc.,

E. H. Conger.