File No. 862.20293/21
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( Reinsch)
[Telegram]
Washington,
December 18, 1917, 4 p.m.
Department’s December 11, 4 p.m. and your December 14, 4 p.m. You are instructed to say to the Chinese Government that the American Government views with favor the suggestion of the British and French Governments that all enemy subjects in China, particularly those suspected by the Chinese Government or Allied Legations of secret plotting should be deported and interned in Australia.
Lansing