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, February 23, 1901.

(Mr. Hay states that it is difficult at this distance to fully appreciate all the circumstances which induce the ministers to insist upon further prosecutions, and that the President, while disinclined to place Mr. Conger in an attitude of opposition to his colleagues, instructs him to make clear to them the President’s earnest desire for peace, the cessation of bloodshed, and the resumption of normal relations.)