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

File No. 893.77/1492

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, November 18, 1915, 3 p.m.

Complaints received stating Hukuang asks bid for locomotives requiring British design and that administration expects to place order by private tender contrary to agreement concerning American standards and public opening of bids. Urge the Minister of Communications to instruct as promised in your telegram of November 11, 1914.

Lansing