File No. 322.93/5.

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

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

The Department has received the following telegram from the American Legation at Peking:

Request received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs that instructions be given our Minister in Ecuador to use his good offices for the protection of Chinese who have been attacked and have had no redress from the Government of Ecuador.

Guided by Department’s No. 61 of August 22, 1908,1 you will, with the consent of the Government of Ecuador, use your good offices for the protection of Chinese subjects and their interests in Ecuador.

Knox.