Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.51/427.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, May 18, 1911.

The French are reported to be holding back advances for Manchuria because of Russian pressure.

Calhoun.