File No. 893.77/1583
The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch
Washington , February 13, 1917 .
Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1331 of January 3, 1917, enclosing a translation of the agreement between the Chinese Government and the Yokohama Specie Bank, concluded December 27, 1915, for the construction of a railway from Ssupingkai to Chengchiatun.
The note (No. 511) which you addressed to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs under date of October 13, 1916, on the above-mentioned subject, a copy of which note was enclosed with the despatch under acknowledgment, is approved, together with the note addressed by you on January 3, 1917, to the Japanese Minister, relative to this matter.
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