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

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Berlin, February 11, 1904.

(Mr. Tower reports that Department’s telegram, announcing that instructions have been sent to the United States representatives at St. Petersburg, Tokyo, and Peking, has been communicated to the German minister for foreign affairs, and he replied that the necessary instructions will be sent at once to the German representatives in those capitals. He was also informed that the views of the United States will be communicated immediately to all the neutral signatories of the protocol of Peking.)