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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

By the President:

JOHN HAY

Secretary of State.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

DECORATION CONFERRED UPON SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN HAY, BY THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Mr. des Portes to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]

EMBASSY OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

Narragansett Pier, July 14, 1904.

MR. SECRETARY OF STATE: On this 14th of July, date of the national French holiday, I have the honor to inform your excellency that the Government of the Republic, animated by the desire to show to your excellency its high appreciation, not only of your merit as a statesman and scholar, but also of the services rendered by you, during your administration, in devoting your efforts to the maintenance of the peace of the world, has decided to confer on your excellency the dignity of the Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

Allow me to assure your excellency how agreeable it is to me to be, on this occasion, the spokesman of my Government and to find myself the first to address to you my respectful congratulations.

Accept, etc.,

DES PORTES.

Mr. Hay to Mr. des Portes.

[Telegram.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, July 14, 1904.

I have just received your note of to-day's date informing me of the action of the Government of the Republic in conferring upon me the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Waiving all individual considerations, I sincerely appreciate the sentiment which has moved your Government to take this signal method of testifying in my person its appreciation of the efforts which, in the name of my country and as the exponent of the earnest wishes of the President and of my fellow-citizens in behalf of peace, it has been my duty and privilege. to exert in furtherance of international concord and good will.

I shall take immediate occasion to instruct the American ambassador at Paris to advise the Government of the Republic of the grati

tude with which I accept this honor, subject to the superior sanction of the Congress as prescribed by our Constitution and statutes, and of my high sense of this tribute to the endeavors of the American Government and people to promote the ends of peace.

Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter.

[Telegram.]

JOHN HAY.

DEPARTMENT of State,
Washington, July 14, 1994.

This morning I received a note from the chargé d'affaires of France informing me of the action of the Government of the Republic in conferring upon me the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. I have replied that, waiving all individual considerations, I sincerely appreciate the sentiment which has moved the French Government to take this signal method of testifying in my person its appreciation of the efforts which, in the name of my country and as the exponent of the earnest wishes of the President and of my fellow-citizens in behalf of peace, it has been my duty and privilege to exert in furtherance of international concord and good will.

In advising you of this I have to request you to express to the Government of the Republic the gratitude with which I accept this honor, subject to the superior sanction of the Congress as prescribed by our Constitution and statutes, and of my high sense of this tribute to the endeavors of the American Government and people to promote peace among the nations.

JOHN HAY.

ABDUCTION OF ION PERDICARIS BY BANDITS IN MOROCCO.

(Note. See also under Great Britain, p. 338, and Morocco, p. 496.)

Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter.

[Telegram.-Paraphrase.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, May 28, 1904.

(Mr. Hay instructs Mr. Porter to request the good offices of the French Government in the Perdicaris matter.)

Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.-Paraphrase.]

AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Paris, May 30, 1904.

(Mr. Porter advises that he has complied with Department's instructions of the 28th instant, and that the minister for foreign

affairs at once instructed the French minister at Tangier to cooperate by all possible means in the rescue of Perdicaris, to urge the Sultan to action, and to engage the services of certain religious families of influence who have heretofore been useful in similar affairs.)

Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter.

[Telegram.-Paraphrase.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, June 25, 1904.

(Mr. Hay instructs Mr. Porter to convey to the minister for foreign affairs the deep appreciation of the President of the kindly and efficient cooperation of the French Government in effecting the rescue of Mr. Perdicaris.)

GERMANY.·

ARBITRATION OF THE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF CLAIMS

AGAINST VENEZUELA.

[See under the Netherlands, p. 505.]

NEUTRALITY OF CHINA IN THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Mr. Hay to Mr. Tower.

[Telegram.-Paraphrase.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 8, 1904.

(Mr. Hay instructs Mr. Tower to consult the minister for foreign affairs in regard to the possibility and desirability of neutral powers concurrently using good offices with Russia and Japan (in case a state of war should unfortunately be created) to induce them to respect the neutrality of China and in all practicable ways her administrative entity, to localize and limit as much as possible the area of hostilities, so that undue excitement and disturbance of the Chinese people may be prevented and the least possible loss to the commerce and the peaceful intercourse of the world may be occasioned. If this proposition is acceptable suggest that instructions be sent to the German representatives at St. Petersburg, Tokyo, and Peking. All the signatories of the protocol of Peking will then be consulted.)

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.-Paraphrase.]

AMERICAN EMBASSY,

Berlin, February 9, 1904.

(Mr. Tower reports that he has communicated to the German minister for foreign affairs Department's telegram of February 8 concerning the neutrality of China, and asked him whether this proposition of the United States is acceptable to the Imperial German Government. In reply he stated that the proposition is entirely

agreeable to the German Government, and that Germany is ready, on receipt of further information from Washington, to instruct in this sense its representatives at St. Petersburg, Tokyo, and Peking. He said further that the German Government sympathizes fully with the purpose of the United States on behalf of humanity, the protection of foreigners in China, the maintenance of order, and the safeguarding of the commerce of the world. He added that Germany believes that to attain these purposes the support of the neutrality of China would be the most available means; and the German Government is prepared to act in harmony with the United States and the other neutral powers to assure the neutrality of China in so far as this may be compatible with the respective military interests of the belligerent powers.)

No. 294.]

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

AMERICAN EMBASSY,

Berlin, February 10, 1904. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on Tuesday morning, the 9th of February, of your dispatch in regard to the maintenance of the neutrality of China during the war between Russia and Japan.

Immediately upon the receipt of this message I proceeded to the Imperial German ministry for foreign affairs, where I had a personal interview with Baron von Richthofen, imperial secretary of state for foreign affairs, and communicated to him the contents of your telegram. I handed to Baron von Richthofen a memorandum, a copy of which is herewith respectfully inclosed.

Upon leaving the ministry for foreign affairs I telegraphed to you the reply of the German Government in a dispatch, a copy of the text of which, as well as a copy of the text of your dispatch to me, is hereto attached.

I have, etc.,

CHARLEMAGNE TOWER.

[Inclosure.]

A copy of a memorandum handed by Mr. Tower to Baron von Richthofen, imperial secretary of state for foreign affairs, on Tuesday, February 9, 1904, at 12 o'clock noon.

I am to consult his excellency as to the possibility and desirability of a joint action of the neutral powers to use their good offices with Russia and Japan, in case of actual war, in order that the neutrality of China may be respected and her administrative entity maintained in so far as possible; and also that the area of hostilities may be limited as far as it may be possible to do so and localized so as to prevent undue excitement and disturbance of the Chinese people, and to attain the least possible loss to the commerce and the peaceful intercourse of the world.

If this proposition seems acceptable to his excellency I am instructed to suggest to him that instructions may be sent in this sense to the German representatives in St. Petersburg, Tokio, and Peking.

And all the signatories of the protocol of Peking will then be consulted.

I am also to intimate to his excellency in confidence that this circular is sent at the suggestion of the German Government.

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