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Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Telegram dispatched to Peking June 23, 1909.
REFERRING to your wire of the 23rd. Matter is in the hands of Foreign Office who are pressing United States' Government, Washington, to agree to conference in Europe between representatives of Anglo-German-French group and American syndicate as only practical means of settling details with a view to give effect to American desire for participation which is already conceded in principle.
Paris and Berlin have been advised and urged to co-operate with British Govern- ment in arranging conference. Inform Cordes and Casenave,
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américains. L'un d'eux, le représentant de la maison Kuhn, Loeb, et Cie., vient d'arriver à Paris, et nous ne tarderons pas sans doute à être l'objet de démarches de sa part.
Puisque vous vous êtes déjà en rapports avec nos amis allemands à ce sujet, je peuse que nous pourrons nous réunir d'ici peu pour arrêter notre ligne de conduite.
Croyez-moi, &c.
ST. SIMON.
Inclosure 8 in No. 1.
Telegram addressed by the Secretary of State to the American Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, dated June 16, 1909.
[Printed as Inclosure I in Mr. Whitelaw Reid's despatch of June 21 (23469).]
Inclosure 4 in No. 1.
Telegram to M. Urbig.
June 23, 1909.
WE hope your Government will co-operate with ours in again urging United States Government, Washington, to agree to conference in Europe between repre- sentatives of Anglo-German-French groups and American syndicate as only practical means of settling details with view to giving effect to American desire for participation which is already conceded in principle.
Have advised Hillier. Inform Cordes and Casenave.
Inclosure 5 in No. 1.
Telegram from M. Urbig to Mr. C. S. Addis.
Berlin, June 23, 1909.
RECEIVED your Nos. 22 and 23 telegrams. Will see syndicate to-morrow. Meantime have made no concessions, even not in principle to Americans, and would like to know what you have conceded. Please wire immediately.
Inclosure 6 in No. 1.
Mr. Addis to M. Urbig,
June 24, 1909.
LIKE yourselves, we have made no concessions. We have not had any com- munication with the Americans, but our Government has associated itself with your Government in intimating at Washington its willingness to accept American participation in principle, leaving details to be arranged by banks interested. Refer your letter of
the 19th.
Cher Mr. Addis,
Inclosure 7 in No. 1.
M. St. Simon to Mr. Addis.
Paris, le 23 juin, 1909.
JE vous remets ci-joint, à titre confidentiel, la copie des instructions données, le 16 de ce mois, par le Département des Affaires Etrangères à Washington à son chargé d'affaires à Pékin, et qui résument les revendications américaines à cette date.
Je vous confirme ce que je vous disais dans ma lettre d'hier, relativement à la nécessité de nous entendre de vive voix avant toute conversation avec les financiers
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