Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Peking, May 3, 1903.

(Mr. Conger reports having forwarded by mail a correct translation of the note of the Russian chargé d’affaires to Prince Ch’ing, containing substantially the demands mentioned in Mr. Conger’s telegram of April 23, to which the chargé d’affaires says in his note China must agree, and then further evacuation will follow.)