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

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, February 11, 1904.

(Mr. Conger reports that Department’s telegram of the 10th has been complied with, and that the Russian and Japanese ministers yesterday handed declaration of war to the Chinese Government, which will at once issue proclamation of neutrality.)