Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Hay to Mr. Storer.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 13, 1904.

(Mr. Hay informs Mr. Storer that this Government desires China’s neutrality to be respected everywhere so far as is practicable in a state of war which must of course be carried on in part on the waters or soil of China. But to make a general agreement of the powers possible this Government does not specify metes or bounds.)