File No. 763.72115/3237
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( Reinsch)
[Telegram]
Washington,
December 29, 1917, 3 p.m.
Your cipher telegram of December 27, 11 p.m.1 Department in its telegram of December 18, 4 p.m.2 expressed favorable opinion of proposal to deport enemy subjects from China and intern in Australia. Does your present inquiry refer to same suggestion or are enemy subjects to be deported to other places than Australia? Please fully explain.
Lansing