Mr. Hay to Mr. Hardy.
[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Department of State,
Washington, February 16, 1904.
Washington, February 16, 1904.
(Mr. Hay informs Mr. Hardy that no formal text of adherence to the proposal of the United States has been adopted by the powers, but each of them instructs its representatives at St. Petersburg, Tokyo, and Peking in its own phraseology.)