Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

[Telegram.]

Washington, December 23, 1898.

Protest French extension if against American interests.

Hay.

[Inclosure.]

Mr. Conger to the tsungli yamen.

Legation of the United States of America,
Pekin, China, January 5, 1899.

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, has the honor to inform your highness and your excellencies that he is instructed by his Government to protest against the proposed extension of the French settlement, or any other, at Shanghai which will bring American-owned property under the jurisdiction of any single foreign power.

The undersigned avails, etc.,

E. H. Conger.