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

Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Paris , February 13, 1904 .

(Mr. Porter states that Mr. Delcassé gives adherence to our proposition in the following words:

Like the Government of the United States, the Government of the French Republic thinks that it is very desirable that the neutrality of China be respected. But it is of the opinion that Manchuria, which is the field of military operations, ought to be excepted. It thinks, also, that it follows of itself that Chinese neutrality ought to include the leased Chinese territories and foreign concessions.)