Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Pekin, November 16, 1900.

(Mr. Conger reports the decapitation at Paotingfu of the provincial treasurer, a Tartar general, and a lieutenant-colonel, under sentence of military court, approved by field marshal.)