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

Memorandum handed to Mr. Adee by Baron von Sternburg, German Chargé d’Affaires.

German Embassy, August 13, 1900.

The Russian Government proposes to send an international detachment under a white flag as far as the city walls of Pekin to effect a peaceful bringing back of the foreign envoys now in Pekin.