Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 711.9321/1

Chargé MacMurray to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Peking, July 11, 1915.

May the notification of abrogation directed by Department’s instruction of May 29 be explicitly confined to the second sentence of Article 18 of the Treaty of 1858, which alone concerns arrest of seamen?

MacMurray