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

File No. 893.811/260

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

No. 633

Department of State,
Washington, June 12, 1917.

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1458 of April 19, 1917, relative to the proposed cooperation between the American International Corporation and Japanese capitalists in the improvement of the Grand Canal in Shantung.

Your action in regard to this matter, as reported in the despatch under acknowledgment, is approved.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Frank L. Polk