File No. 819.55/52.
The Chinese Chargé d’Affaires at Washington to the Secretary of State.
Washington, November 18, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your notes to this Legation of the 14th and the 15th instant, relating to the Chinese trouble in Panama, and to thank you heartily for the kind interposition of your Government in the matter, of which I will inform my Government without delay.
I now have to advise you that my Government yielding to the desire of the Government of Panama has appointed a new Chinese Consul General to the Republic of Panama, and that he will enter upon his duties at the earliest possible date.
I beg, Mr. Secretary, in continuance of your kind exercise of good offices in the absence of a Chinese representative at Panama, that you will communicate by cable the above action of my Government to that of Panama through the American Minister at that post, and instruct the Minister to urge upon the Government of Panama to suspend further action in the enforcement of the recent regulations respecting the Chinese residents of that Republic until the arrival of the new Consul General, who will be instructed to confer with the [Page 1134] authorities in the spirit of amity and conciliation in the hope of mailing a satisfactory settlement of the questions which have arisen.
Accept [etc.]