Mr. Wu to Mr. Adee .
Washington , August 20, 1902 .
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 16th instant, inclosing a copy of the most recent instruction of your Department to the United States consul-general at Panama in regard to the protection of Chinese subjects on the Isthmus. You are good enough to offer to repeat to the consul-general the previous instructions of your Department on the subject. Inasmuch as the failure of Chinese subjects on the Isthmus to receive lately the desired protection has been due to the supposed want of instructions from your Department, I shall be glad if you will kindly repeat the instructions to the United States consul-general at Panama, so that there will be no misunderstanding in this regard in the future.
If there is not too much trouble, I should like to have the United States minister to Colombia duly informed of this arrangement, so that, in case his attention is called to it, he may act accordingly.
Thanking you for your kindness, etc.,