File No. 14911/9–10.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chinese Minister.
Washington, November 21, 1908.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 17th instant, with which was inclosed a copy of a cablegram forwarded to you by the Wai-wu Pu from His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, to the President, announcing the demise of His Imperial Majesty, the late Emperor of China.
In reply I have the honor to inform you that the message inclosed in your communication has been transmitted to the President and that the American minister at Peking has been instructed to present a telegram of condolence and sympathy from the President to His Imperial Majesty.
Accept, etc.,