Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 4992/14.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 10, 1907.

(Mr. Bacon directs that the Chinese Government be requested to hold McKinley in their custody at the expense of the United States until the arrival of the agent to receive the fugitive.

Mr. Bacon informs Mr. Rockhill that the steamship Manchuria will sail from the Pacific coast on the 24th instant.)