Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 893.811/167.

The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the Central Committee of the American National Red Cross.

Department of State,
Washington, December 23, 1914.

Sir: Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of December 19, 1914, giving the views of the Red Cross on the proposed advance of $5,000,000 on the Huai River loan.

Pursuant to the suggestion of the Central Committee of the Red Cross, the Department sent a telegram to the American Minister at Peking on December 22, 1914, a paraphrase of which is herewith enclosed for your information, setting forth the views of the Committee on the loan.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Robert Lansing

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