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

File No. 893.77/1573

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

No. 541

Department of State,
Washington, December 19, 1916.

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1266 of November 15, 1916, with enclosures, relative to the position taken by you in respect to the protest made by the Russian Minister against the construction of a railway from Fengchen to Ninghsia.

The action taken by you in this matter is approved by the Department.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Frank L. Polk