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

Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin , August 7, 1901 .

(Mr. Jackson, chargé, reports the willingness of Japan and Russia to put their forces under the chief command of Field Marshal Count Waldersee in Chihli. Says the German Government would like to know views entertained by United States Government in regard to chief in command, and in what way it would be inclined to join the American forces in Chihli to the army operating under Waldersee.)