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

File No. 819.55/23.

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

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Peking, September 20, 1913.

Your September 19. The Minister for Foreign Affairs to-day in a note asks the Legation to request you to instruct the American Chargé d’Affaires in Panama to assume temporarily charge of Chinese interests there. He states that he is again telegraphing the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Panama to conform to the requirements of the law and to refrain from further stupid actions.

Williams.