File No. 763.72115/3239
The Minister in China ( Reinsch) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Peking,
December 31, 1917, 6 p.m.
[Received December 31, 4.15 p.m.]
[Received December 31, 4.15 p.m.]
Your December 29, 3 p.m. Inquiry was intended to inform you that the action of the Allied representatives contemplated deportation to Australia of all enemy subjects to the exclusion of the alternative of deporting only suspected persons.
Reinsch