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.

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 16, 1908.

(Mr. Root directs Mr. Rockhill to convey to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor and His Imperial Highness the Regent the deep regret and sincere sympathy of the President, the Secretary of State, and the American people upon the death of His Imperial Majesty the late Emperor and Her Imperial Majesty the late Empress Dowager.)