Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

Department of State,
Washington, May 15, 1900.

No. 262.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 345, of March 23 last, reporting that Yu Hsien, governor of Shantung, has been transferred to the governorship of Shansi.

The Department approves your determination to inform in personal conference the Tsungli Yamen that trouble will possibly come from the appointment, in view of Yu Hsien’s strong antiforeign feeling, and of the hostility that he has heretofore shown in his official capacity to foreigners and their interests.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.