Foreign Relations of the United States, 1901, Appendix, Affairs in China, Report of William W. Rockhill, Late Commissioner to China, with Accompanying Documents

Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Washington, December 31, 1900.

(Mr. Hay states that Mr. Conger’s opinion that expeditions should cease is shared by the President, and instructs him to endeavor also to have the forts disarmed instead of destroyed.)