Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 893.811/213

Minister Reinsch to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams]

American Legation,
Peking, April 17, 1916.

Carey and Gregory have concluded preliminary contract with Shantung Government for the improvement of the Grand Canal in that province as part of Huai River conservancy. Construction work to be carried out by Carey.

The Chinese Government, under the Treaty of 1898, felt obliged to offer a participation in loan to Germans.

Reinsch