Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72111/277

The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires in China (MacMurray)

Department of State,
Washington, August 7, 1914, 2 p.m.

[Telegram]

Your telegram of August 6, 8 p.m.¹ Report nationality and numbers of troops withdrawn from the railway and of those remaining. Has the Diplomatic Corps recently discussed question of continuing railway guards? Have governments withdrawing made any arrangements with other powers for substitutes?

Bryan

1. Not printed.