Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

File No. 24074.

Chargé Fletcher to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, April 15, 1910.

Mr. Fletcher reports rioting at Chang-sha on 13th and 14th, and says governor’s yamen, two English and one Norwegian mission burned. Adds that foreigners are safe; that foreign office assures him that there is no reason for anxiety; and that three British gunboats are on their way to Chang-sha.