Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 893.811/182.

Minister Reinsch to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.]

American Legation,
Peking , February 4, 1915 .

Your February 3. Presidential rescript just issued extending Huai River option for one year.

Minister Shah transmitted several suggestions for amendment of the proposed contract which the Minister of Commerce discussed with me and which I believe I convinced him to be utterly impracticable.

Reinsch.