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

File No. 611.9331/40

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

No. 574

Department of State,
Washington, February 23, 1917.

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1348 of January 16, 1917, with its enclosures, relative to the export of flour by certain Chinese dealers in exception to the treaty stipulations forbidding such exports.

The Department’s telegram of January 19, 4 p.m., authorized the Legation to proceed in the manner suggested in the last paragraph of the despatch under acknowledgment and in accordance with the proposed course of action stated in your telegram of January 16, 6 p.m.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Frank L. Polk