Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Volume I

893.811/282a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Reinsch)

Washington, January 16, 1918, 7 p.m.

American International Corporation would like to carry on negotiations relative to advance for preliminary canal survey through channel of Chinese Legation here. Discreetly ascertain whether His Excellency Hsiung Hsi-ling⁴⁰ would have any objection. Please inform Hitchcock⁴¹ and Gatrell.⁴²

Lansing

40. Director General of the Grand Canal Improvement Board.
41. F. C. Hitchcock, Vice President of the Siems-Carey Railway & Canal Co., in Peking.
42. T. J. N. Gatrell, representative of the Siems-Carey Railway & Canal Co., in Peking.