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

File No. 893.51/1716

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, December 5, 1916.

Department’s telegram December 4. You are authorized to take occasion to intimate to your colleagues representing Governments of group bankers’ nationalities that any strained construction of existing agreements between the Chinese Government and bankers, or any attempt to exclude our bankers from a fair participation in Chinese affairs, would meet with very decided resistance from this Government.

Lansing