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

File No. 893.811/267

The Secretary of State to the American International Corporation

Department of State,
Washington, August 30, 1917.

Sir: The Department encloses herewith for your information paraphrase of a telegram which was sent on August 25, 1917, to the American Minister at Peking in regard to the conclusion of a contract between the Chinese Government and your Corporation for the improvement of a portion of the Grand Canal, and a paraphrase of the Minister’s reply of August 30, 1917, relative thereto.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Alvey A. Adee