Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 774/380A.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.¹

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 11, 1908.

(Mr. Bacon informs Mr. Reid that the United States gives the delegates simple designation as commissioners, and it is hoped that the Chinese Government will grant them personal standing with, but before, consuls general.)

1. Repeated to France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Netherlands, Portugal, Persia, China, and Siam.