Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War

File No. 763.72/3641

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

[Telegram]

Peking, April 3, 1917, 4 p.m.
[Received April 3, 10.30 a.m.]

Your March 18, 11 a.m. I beg to request earliest possible information concerning action of the American Government respecting Germany. The Chinese Government in forming a decision as to its further policy desires to take into consideration such action as well as any intimations the American Government may wish to make.

Political prospects of monarchical movement discouraged by Russian developments, though local trouble still threatening Yunnan, Szechwan.

Reinsch