Mr. Adee to Mr. De Wollant.

My Dear Mr. Chargé d’affaires: Referring to our conversation this afternoon, touching the Russian proposal for the dispatch of an international detachment of the forces now cooperating in China to Pekin, under a white flag, there to receive the beleaguered ministers and the inmates of the legations, I have the pleasure to hand you a memorandum setting forth the views of this Government upon the matter as I orally expressed them to you.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.