Office of the Historian

File No. 862.85/145

The Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( Reinsch)1

[Telegram]
Washington, October 13, 1917, 3 p.m.

Your cipher telegram September 10, 8 p.m.2 The Department has agreed with the British Government to the following scheme of allocation of the German and Austrian vessels in China: [Here follows the latter half of the British Embassy’s memorandum of October 1.3] Consult with your British colleague and endeavor to secure this arrangement. For your guidance the Department is opposed to the recognition of the claims of any private parties that they have purchased [Page 694] any of these vessels. You will endeavor to prevent recognition of such claims.

Lansing
  1. The same, on the same date, to the Ambassador in Japan. (File No. 862.85/181.)↩
  2. Not printed.↩
  3. Ante, p. 690.↩