Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 1571.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, April 7, 1906.

No. 129.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 233, of February 23 last, on the subject of the conservancy of the Whangpoo.

The department approves your signing the joint note, dated February 19 last, in which the representatives of the powers signatories of the final protocol of September 7, 1901, protested against the alleged action of the viceroy of Nanking in appointing a resident administrator of the Whangpoo conservancy board in contravention of Article I of the revised agreement of September 27, 1905.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bagon.