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

File No. 837.55/28.

The Secretary of State to the Chinese Minister.

No. 69.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 20, 1915.

Sir: For your information and guidance I have the honor to enclose herewith paraphrase of a telegram dated April 17 to the Department from the American Legation at Habana, Cuba, on the subject of the suspension for sixty days of the prohibition against Chinese immigration into that country.

In this connection the Department desires to inform you that it has received a despatch on this subject from the American Minister at Habana, written prior to the date of the telegram referred to above in which despatch the Minister expresses the opinion that “there is very little prospect of accomplishing anything without the presence of the Chinese Minister.”

Accept [etc.]

W. J. Bryan.