Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72/6811

The Minister in China ( Reinsch) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Peking, September 12, 1917, 6 p.m.
[Received September 12, 5.10 p.m.]

Your telegram of March 26, 4 p.m.¹ The Chinese Foreign Office gives oral assurance that educational program of 1918 will in any case be continued unchanged and promises that this assurance will be formally confirmed in writing if and when the United States Government announces its acceptance of postponement of indemnity payments as proposed in the note of the Allied Ministers of September 8 as reported in my September 5, 12 p.m.

Reinsch

1. Supplement 1, p. 422.