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

File No. 893.77/1608

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

No. 681

Department of State,
Washington, September 27, 1917.

Sir: Referring to the Department’s instruction No. 612 of May 18, 1917, there is sent enclosed copies of later correspondence between the French Embassy in Washington and the Department of State relating to the protest of the French Government against the proposed construction by an American corporation of a railway across the Province of Kwangsi.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Frank L. Polk