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

File No. 893.51/1264.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, January 29, 1913.

Your telegram January 27. I do not know the nature of French Minister’s new instructions except by inference. The fact that the Minister had previously given us a paraphrase of his instructions requiring six general advisers, and has now authorized his banker to sign a letter promising advance with advisers limited to service of loan, tended to confirm report that his former instructions were revoked. He has not since conferred with his colleagues.

Calhoun.