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.

Department of State,
Washington, March 30, 1899.

No. 151.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 142, of the 8th ultimo, reporting a series of recent riotous incidents in the province of Shantung, culminating in attacks on the property of American missionaries and general interference with the work of foreign and native Christians in that province.

Your note to the tsungli yamen, demanding the arrest and punishment of the ringleaders in the riots, is approved by the Department.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.