Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United
States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress
December 7, 1903
Mr. Goodnow to Mr.
Hay.
Shanghai, May 2,
1903.
(Mr. Goodnow reports that the Chinese commissioners, having no
instructions from Chinese Government, decline to discuss the opening of
Manchurian ports; that he has telegraphed the United States minister at
Peking.)