Copy of telegram received from the minister for foreign affairs, dated the 18th instant.
July 18, 1900.
[Left at the Department of State.]
According to reports so far received two legations appeared to hold out up to the 9th instant.
On the 11th the Chinese minister at Tokyo presented a message from the Emperor of China, in which, after expressing deep regret for the murder of Sugiyama, the chancellor of the Japanese legation at Pekin, and describing the present situation in his country, he appealed to His Imperial Majesty to use his good offices with a view to effecting an amicable settlement of the affair. His Majesty urged, in reply on the 13th, the immediate relief of the foreign representatives and the speedy suppression of the disturbances, and added that if this was done other matters could in due time be amicably settled, and that Japan would make every effort in China’s interests.