Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 893.51/1804

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, September 13, 1917, 3 p.m.

Your September 7, 5 p.m. The Chinese Minister on behalf of his Government has requested a loan of 100,000,000 dollars. The matter is having careful consideration and the Minister has been told that for the present a loan of 25,000,000 dollars may probably be had.

Lansing