File No. 763.72112/5450
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( Reinsch )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
November 17, 1917, 6 p.m.
Your November 10, 12 noon. Please inform Department what is meant by economic blockade of the Central powers. The Department in its telegram of September 20, 4 p.m.,1 in reply to yours of September 5, midnight,2 explained that it was impossible to accede to certain measures proposed by other powers.
Polk