Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 551/28.

Ambassador Riddle to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg,May 30, 1907.

(Reports that in compliance with telegraphic instructions he has communicated with the minister for foreign affairs on the subject of the establishment of Chinese custom-houses, and that the minister replied that the negotiations are very nearly completed at Peking, but the Chinese Government objects to four points, the most important of which is that relating to the 50 versts free zone.)