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File No. 551/25b.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Riddle.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Department of State,
Washington,May 24, 1907.

(Directs Mr. Riddle discreetly to impress upon the minister for foreign affairs the interest felt by this Government in the reestablishment of normal conditions throughout Manchuria and the fact that the Government of the United States should greatly appreciate such action by the Government of Russia as would lead to the early establishment of Chinese custom-houses on the Russo-Chinese frontier. States that this step would have much effect in hastening the regularization of commercial conditions in southern Manchuria also, which should, be welcome to Russia as well as to the United States.)