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. 2648/23.

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, March 18, 1908.

No. 435.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Fletcher’s dispatch No. 839 of the 6th ultimo, inclosing a copy of his note of that date to the Wai-wu Pu regarding the Chinese mining regulations.

In reply I have to inform you that Mr. Fletcher’s note to the Wai-wu Pu is approved by the department.

I have, etc.,

E. Root.