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The Secretary of State to the Russian Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, January 24, 1905.

Dear Excellency: In compliance with your excellency’s request on the 13th instant we instructed our chargé d’affaires in Peking to bring to the attention of the Chinese Government the statement of the Imperial Government of Russia in regard to alleged violations of neutrality on the part of China.

We have received from the Chinese minister in Washington a reply to this statement, sent him by his government, which I hasten to bring to your excellency’s knowledge.a

I am, etc.,

John Hay.
  1. Printed under China, p. 136.↩