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

Pro memoria.

Chinese Legation,
Washington, July 18, 1900.

I have been requested by Grand Secretary Li Hung Chang to consult your Government as to the possibility of obtaining from the treaty powers either a guaranty of the territorial integrity of China or a self-denying ordinance in any action circumstances may call on them to take in the present disturbed state of the country.