File No. 158.931/93.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Russian Chargé d’Affaires.
Washington , February 17, 1911 .
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your-note of February 13, 1911, informing me that the Russian minister at Peking has been instructed to ask the consent of the Imperial Chinese Government to the adoption of certain measures designed to prevent the spread of the plague from Manchuria into Siberia, and requesting to be informed whether the American Government would be disposed to support the action which the Russian minister at Peking has been instructed to take.
In reply I have the honor to state that the American Government, in harmony with its memorandum of January 20 last, is disposed to give its cordial support to the Imperial Russian Government in its endeavors to obtain the consent of the Chinese Government to cooperate with Russia in the adoption of reasonable measures, not invasive of China’s sovereign rights, solely designed to prevent the spread of the plague from Manchuria into Siberia.
Accept, etc.,