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

Mr. Hay to Mr. De Wollant.

Department of State,
Washington, October 11, 1900.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, No. 297, in which you inform me that, the Imperial ministry being entirely in accord with the proposals of the Government of the French Republic respecting the bases of settlement to be negotiated between the powers and China, your Government lends its support to the French programme.

In reply I have the honor to communicate to you copy of the recent correspondence exchanged with the French chargé d’affaires on the subject.¹

Be pleased, etc.,

John Hay.

1. Printed, pp. 321–324.