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. 1518/191.

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , December 3, 1908 .

(Mr. Root directs Mr. Rockhill, in expressing the felicitations of the President and Government on the celebration of the accession to the Throne, to say that it was particularly agreeable to the President to receive His Excellency T’ang Shao-yi, His Imperial Majesty’s ambassador on the same auspicious day.)