File No. 893.01/108
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Peking, May 25, 1916, 5 p.m.
Referring to my cable of May 24, 11 p.m. For a fuller understanding of the situation I beg to say no assurances of American protection will be given but action will depend upon circumstances at the time appeal may be made. The President, after his resignation, will be treated by the Chinese Government not as a fugitive but as a distinguished ex-official. On account of undoubted presence of radical revolutionists the Government cannot adequately protect the President as he cannot take a Chinese guard into the foreign settlements, and for other reasons