Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918

File No. 893.51/2006

The Chargé in China ( MacMurray) to the Secretary of State

No. 2172

Peking, August 3, 1918.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith, for the confidential information of the Department, a translation from the Chinese text of the contract for a loan of yen five million by a Japanese banking syndicate (represented by the Industrial Bank of Japan and the Sino-Japanese Industrial Development Company) to the Chinese Government for the purpose of flood relief in the Province of Chihli, concluded November 22, 1917.¹

I have [etc.]

J. V. A. MacMurray

1. Not printed.