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

File No. 837.55/29.

The Secretary of State to the Chinese Minister.

No. 73.]

Department of State,
Washington , May 18, 1915 .

Sir: The Department has received your note of May 13, 1915, in which you request that the American Minister at Habana be instructed to cooperate with the Chinese Chargé d’Affaires there in an effort to prevail upon the Cuban Government to continue in force, pending the conclusion of a treaty between China and Cuba, the order suspending for sixty days the prohibition against Chinese immigration into Cuba.

A paraphrase of a telegram dated May 17, from the Department to the American Minister at Habana on this subject, is enclosed herewith.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Robert Lansing.