Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Chargé Coolidge to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Peking, February 10, 1905.

No. 1813.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that the French minister has just notified me that, realizing the interest felt by the American Government in the speedy settlement of the Whangpu conservancy question, as evinced by the instruction of November 19 to the United States diplomatic representatives,^a he had to inform me that his government had telegraphed its willingness to accept the so-called counter project of the ministers, a copy of which was forwarded to the Department for its approval in my No. 1792 of January 14.

I have, etc.,

John Gardner Coolidge.

1. Printed in Foreign Relations, 1904, page 199.