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

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States of America,
Pekin, China, April 3, 1899.

No. 186.]

Sir: I have to confirm, on the overleaf, my telegram of the 2d instant, concerning the German military expedition invading the province of Shantung, and to revert to my dispatch of March 30 ultimo upon the same subject.

I have, etc.,

E. H. Conger.

[Inclosure.—Telegram.]

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

Pekin, April 2, 1899.

German military expedition has been sent to interior of Shantung professedly to preserve order and to protect German missionaries and engineers, and have been instructed by German Government to protect Americans in case of necessity.

Conger.