Office of the Historian

File No. 893.77/1605

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

No. 612
Department of State,
Washington, May 18, 1917.

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1451 of April 14, 1917, enclosing with other documents a translation of a letter addressed to you by the French Minister at Peking under date of March 30, 1917, and a copy of your reply of April 14, 1917, in regard to the French claim of priority in the matter of railway and mining enterprises in the Province of Kwangsi.

The action taken by you in the above-mentioned matter is approved.

For your information and guidance, there is enclosed herewith a copy of a note dated April 21, 1917, from the French Ambassador at Washington, with the Department’s reply of May 1, 1917, on this subject.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Frank L. Polk