File No. 893.00/1406.
The American Ambassador to Russia to the Secretary of State.
St. Petersburg, August 3, 1912.
I have today received the following aide-mémoire:
Summary of the aide-mémoire: The Ministry for Foreign Affairs acknowledges the embassy’s aide-memoire of July 30 relating to recognition of the Chinese Republican Government. This Government is only provisional; the period for which it was elected soon expires; under its administration the conditions in China seem not to have sensibly improved; the Russian Government believes that none of the powers who have sent troops to China is thinking of recalling them. Consequently the Russian Government believes that it would be prudent to postpone formal recognition of the Chinese Republic until that Government, having been definitely established, shall have given sufficient proofs to judge of its stability.