Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 5315/563.

Chargé Fletcher to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, October 27, 1909.

Mr. Fletcher reports that both the German minister and the German bankers’ representative seem favorable to the solution proposed by him yesterday, namely, the construction of section Hsiangyang to Kuangshui under American engineers, and promise to recommend it to Berlin. He adds that the British are favorable also, and that all recognize danger of delay.