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conveyed to Yuan Shih-kai yesterday the formal recognition of the Republic of China by President Wilson on behalf of the Government and citizens of the United States.

J. N. JORDAN.

I have, &c.

Enclosure in No. 52.

Wai-chiao Pu to Sir J. Jordan.

(Translation,) Sir,

Peking, May 2, 1913.

I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that Mr. Williams, United States Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, under instructions from the State Department, has on the 2nd May called upon the President of China and handed to him a telegram from the President of the United States to the President of China formally recognising the Republic of China on behalf of the Government and citizens of the United States.

I avail, &c.

(Seal of the Wai-chiao Pu.)

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(No. 190.) Sir,

No. 53.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 26.)

Peking, May 8, 1913.

I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of Yuan Shih-kai's official reply to President Wilson's message of recognition.

It will be noted that Yuan Shih-kai refers in the last paragraph to "the faithful execution of all established obligations."

I have, &c.

J. N. JORDAN,

Enclosure in No. 53.

Newspaper Extract.

PRESIDENT YUAN TO PRESIDENT WILSON,

THE following is President Yuan's official reply to his Excellency Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America:—

In the name of the Republic of China I thank you most heartily for the message of recognition which you have sent to me through your honoured representative in this capital. The sentiments of amity and goodwill which it bespeaks, and the expressions of greeting and welcome which it conveys, at once testify to the American spirit of mutual helpfulness, and add another brilliant page to the history of seventy years of uninterrupted friendly intercourse between China and the United States.

Though unfamiliar with the Republican form of government, the Chinese people are yet fully convinced of the soundness of the principle which underlies it, and which is so luminously represented by your glorious commonwealth. The sole aim of the Government which they have established, therefore, is, and will be, to preserve this form of government and to perfect its workings, to the end that they may enjoy its unalloyed blessings-prosperity and happiness within, through the union of law and liberty, and peace and friendship without, through the faithful execution of all established obligations.

YUAN SHIH-KAI, President of the Republic of China.

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