Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 893.00/19179.

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

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Peking, November 2, 1913.

Serious disorders in southern Honan. Brigands are burning villages around Pi Yang where there is an American Seventh Day Advent Mission. I am demanding protection of the Mission and the suppression of brigandage.

Williams.