China:
Contents
- Collapse of the Government of Li Yuan-hung and the election of Tsao Kun to
the Presidency of China (Documents 343–371)
- Unsuccessful negotiations for a Consortium loan to China for the purpose
of consolidating the Chinese floating debt (Documents 372–394)
- Naval demonstration at Canton by the United States and other powers to
avert seizure of the customs by the local authorities (Documents 395–438)
- Attitude of the American Government with respect to certain Chinese
internal taxes (Documents 439–445)
- Concurrence by the United States in the contention by certain powers that
the Boxer Indemnity payments should be made in gold currency (Documents 446–459)
- Efforts by the British and American Governments to secure from other
powers acceptance of the arms embargo resolution which had been proposed at
the Washington Conference (Documents 460–474)
- Amended American proposal for a mutual undertaking among the powers to
refrain from assisting China in naval construction (Documents 475–478)
- Further postponement of the meeting of the Commission on
Extraterritoriality in China (Documents 479–493)
- Kidnaping of railway passengers near Lincheng by bandits and consequent
demands upon China by the powers (Documents 494–565)
- Amends by the Chinese Government for the killing of Charles Coltman, an
American citizen, by Chinese soldiers in the presence of an American
consul (Documents 566–592)
- Refusal by the United States to recognize the applicability of Chinese
martial law to American citizens or to American naval vessels (Documents 593–595)
- Increase of lawlessness on the upper Yangtze River and recommendations by
American officers in China to reenforce the American gunboat patrol (Documents 596–604)
- Relation of consular officers to other American officers in China (Documents 605–606)
- Final report of the president of the Inter-Allied Technical Board for the
Supervision of the Chinese Eastern and Siberian Railways (Documents 607–609)
- Foreign representations dissuading Chang Tso-lin from assuming control of
the land office of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Documents 610–616)
- Continued support by the United States to the Federal Telegraph Company in
efforts to obtain execution of its contract with the Chinese Government (Documents 617–657)
- Rejection by Japan of the proposal by China to abrogate the agreements of
May 25, 1915 (Documents 658–659)