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

File No. 819.55/18.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister to China.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 2, 1913.

The American Chargé d’Affaires at Panama telegraphs as follows:

August 30. Panaman Government, acknowledging good offices of this Legation, has directed the governors of the provinces to extend the time for registering Chinese under Law 50 until September 15.

Merchants of Panama have intervened with the Panaman Government on behalf of the Chinese. It now seems possible that the matter will be satisfactorily settled without the Government resorting to force to compel the Chinese to comply with the law.

Bryan.