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

File No. 819.55/7.

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

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, June 19, 1913.

I am requested by the Foreign Office to request the good offices of the Department in Panama, where restrictive laws offend the Chinese Government, which desires to know if a modification of those laws is possible, or their suspension until conclusion of a treaty with Panama, where China intends to establish a legation.

Williams.