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. 893.51/989.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, July 9, 1912.

The Premier and the Minister of Finance were informed this afternoon by the six ministers of the instructions received from their several Governments. The reply was that the acceptance of the terms of supervision were impossible; that the National Council will not approve and public opinion will not permit.

Calhoun.