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Assistant Secretary of State Loomis will meet with a Chinese minister and asks if President Roosevelt has anything that must be discussed.
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1905-08-28
If Russo-Japanese settlements include the sale of the Manchurian Railway to China, China prefers the United States to finance China’s payment.
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1905-08-29
Acting Secretary of State Loomis writes to Benjamin F. Barnes saying he has enclosed information regarding the Legation at Peking and the boycott agitation in China. He asks that it be shared with President Roosevelt.
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1905-08-30
George C. Perkins writes to President Roosevelt regarding the boycott in China and its effect on the people of San Francisco. Perkins requests that Roosevelt send Secretary of War Taft to Canton to stop the boycott.
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1905-08-30
The Chinese boycott of American goods has had no effect on Singapore. Europe sympathizes with China during the boycott and their newspapers encourage it. Consul General Wilber believes this may eventually negatively affect European trade with China because “the Chinese do not discriminate between Americans and Europeans.”
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1905-08-24
Frank P. Sargent encloses for President Roosevelt a report on admission and rejection of Chinese immigrants for July 1905.
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1905-08-21
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses for President Roosevelt dispatches from Peking regarding the Chinese boycott of American goods and the ongoing peace talks between Russia and Japan.
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1905-08-22
Consul General Miller reports to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis that the Chinese Guild has decided not to follow through on fines for those who violate the boycott on American goods.
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1905-08-22
Rudolph Forster quotes a telegram for President Roosevelt from the Chinese Foreign Office, authorizing Viceroy Zhidong Zhang to take control of the Hankow-Canton railway.
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1905-08-17
Samuel Levis Gracey informs William Woodville Rockhill that the placards supporting the Chinese boycott of American goods are increasing anti-American sentiments across the country.
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1905-08-18
Assistant Secretary of State Adee received the enclosed memorandum from the Chinese minister and seeks President Roosevelt’s instructions.
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1905-08-19
Assistant Secretary of State Adee encloses a proclamation regarding the Chinese boycott on American goods.
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1905-08-21
Cheng Liang has been authorized by the Chinese government to take control of the Canton-Hankow railroad and carry out the agreement with the American China Development Company.
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1905-08-21
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks reminds President Roosevelt of Jenks’s thoughts on the situation in China and emphasizes the importance of action.
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1905-08-10
Chinese in Bangkok are supporting the Chinese boycott of American goods, but Montgomery Schuyler believes the boycott will quickly die out. Schuyler encloses clippings from the local press.
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1905-08-10
Wilbur T. Gracey tells Viceroy Zhou that the United States will hold China responsible for failing to enforce the Treaty of 1858, which ensures American trade in China.
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1905-08-11
Per the instructions of Benjamin F. Barnes, Rudolph Forster has sent the requested data to Judge Emory Speer. Forster omitted the material on Russian-Japanese peace matters as nothing has yet been printed by the State Department, but he included the printed correspondence relating to China during the war.
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1905-08-12
Posters showing Chinese men being beaten by police are untrue representations of conditions in America. They are never attacked by police, are not forced into “pig-pen” housing, are not killed for fear of plague, and are not prevented from leaving the United States if they choose. These claims were meant to hamper trade.
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1905-08-12
Wilbur T. Gracey is sending Viceroy Fu Zhou a circular with comments regarding the American boycott in China, which will be discussed by Congress in October.
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1905-08-12
John Callan O’Laughlin has spent time with correspondents regarding the Russo-Japanese war, interviewed Russian Pakatiloff, and supports Russia. The Chinese boycott of American products will have little impact and a Chinese alliance with Japan seems unlikely.
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1905-08-13