Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 893.811/240

Minister Reinsch to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams]

American Legation,
Peking, January 12, 1917, 6 p.m.

Your telegram of January 8, 5 p.m.³¹ I have informally suggested to Japanese Minister possibility of cooperation between American and Japanese interests in the construction of railways in Manchuria recalling to him the existence of American rights in that regard.

Reinsch

31. Printed under Huai River and Grand Canal conservancy project, p. 207.