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The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Department of State,
Washington, July 6, 1905.

(Mr. Peirce states that the Government of the United States will do everything possible to preserve the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of China in the coming peace negotiations, but the United States is only endeavoring to bring the two countries together, and will have nothing to do with the actual negotiations themselves.)