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

File No. 893.77/1553

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

[Telegram]

Department of State.
Washington, August 24, 1916.

Your August 23 and Department’s No. 419. In your discretion whenever advisable call attention of Chinese Government to agreement with American Group ratified January 20, 1910, and statements of Group that their rights never formally relinquished.

Lansing