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

Mr. Loomis to Mr. Combs.

Department of State,
Washington , July 3, 1903 .

No. 54.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 74, of the 19th ultimo, transmitting the correspondence in the case of Juan Ton, a Chinese, arrested at Amatitlan and illegally imprisoned and fined.

The Department approves your course in pressing all meritorious cases of outrage upon the Chinese to a proper settlement.

Copies of your dispatch and of its inclosures have been sent to the Chinese minister for his information.

I am, etc.,

Francis B. Loomis,
Acting Secretary of State.