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

Mr. Conger to Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Pekin, June 8, 1900.

More railway destroyed. Protecting troops withdrawn. Chinese Government becoming more helpless every day. Foreign troops will have to protect railways. Russian, English, and Japanese are ready to do so. Twenty-four foreign war vessels are at Taku. The United States has only one.

Conger.