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 7, 1903.

(Mr. Conger reports that the Russian chargé d’affaires is still insisting with the Chinese Government that no Manchurian ports shall be opened, saying that it would be considered by Russia as a serious affront; that therefore the Chinese dare not include them in treaty.)