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

Mr. Hardy to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Madrid, February 13, 1904.

(Mr. Hardy reports that the desirability of localizing hostilities between Russia and Japan is in a general way approved by the Spanish Government, but the suggestion of the United States Government in regard to the neutrality of China is for the present considered incompatible with Spanish neutrality, and action by other powers will be awaited.)