Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Meyer.

Department of State,
September 20, 1906.

No. 174.]

Sir: I inclose a copy of a dispatch^a from the embassy at Tokyo, in regard to the open door in Manchuria, in which special reference is made to the necessity for the establishment of customs-houses in that region.

You are requested to represent to the Russian Government the importance the United States attaches to the early establishment of Chinese customs-houses on the line of the Chinese Eastern Railway.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.

1. Dispatch No. 45, printed on p. 217.