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. 893.00/581.

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

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, October 17, 1911.

Your October 14. The rebellion not anti foreign. Rebels as well as loyalists disposed to protect foreigners. Except from Hankow and vicinity there seems to be no need for removal of Americans. Steady movement of troops southward. Russians have ordered troops to Suppress Hunghutzus in Manchuria.

Williams.