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. 2413/141.

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Peking, July 20, 1908.

Edict to-day gives T’ang Shao-yi rank of president of a board and appoints him special envoy to the United States to express the thanks of China for the action of the United States in reference to the indemnity. Will probably leave early in November.

Rockhill.