Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.51/986.

The British Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

British Embassy,
Kineo, Me., July 7, 1912.

The French Minister at Peking has been instructed that the French Government consider the best means of obtaining consent of China to proposed conditions is to suspend any advance. The British Minister has been similarly instructed.

Mitchell Innes.