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. 14911/8.

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Peking, November 16, 1908.

It is officially stated that the Empress Dowager died yesterday afternoon, 2.45.

Rockhill.