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 Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington , March 2, 1906 .

No. 110.]

Sir: I inclose herewith, for your information merely, a copy of a letter from Mr. F. W. Sutterle, of the American-Chinese Company,^a stating that the Chinese authorities refused to allow Mr. A. Spitzel, a British subject, who represents certain British capitalists, to examine certain mining property in the province of Hunan, and prevented him and his two engineers from leaving the city of Changsha to go into the interior.

I am, sir, etc.,

Robert Bacon,
Acting Secretary.

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