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

File No. 893.00/2611

Minister Reinsch to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Peking, June 13, 1917, 9 p.m.

The President has been prevailed upon, to sign mandate dissolving Parliament which was today countersigned by newly appointed acting Premier, the General of Peking Gendarmerie. Although the mandate mentions an early election of new Parliament, it is probably not satisfactory to the South.

Reinsch