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

Mr. Adee to Mr. Conger.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 23, 1904.

(Mr. Adee states that the consul-general at Shanghai has been telegraphed that he is not to commit himself to any theory that the United States could be called upon by China or by the foreign consuls to guarantee Chinese neutrality, and that he is to safeguard only as far as possible xlmerican neutral interests if threatened, and to avoid all indications of general policy. Utmost circumspection required.)