Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 12, 1904.

(Mr. Hay instructs Mr. Conger to express to the minister for foreign affairs the earnest hope of the United States Government that China will maintain strict neutrality and that it will exercise proper care so that no provocation of any sort be given to either of the belligerents.)