File No. 893.51/1923e

The Secretary of State to the Chinese Minister ( Koo )

No. 75

Sir: Adverting to your conferences with officials of this Department, on instructions from your Government, on the subject of organizing an international consortium for the purpose of making a loan to China, I have the honor to enclose herewith for your information and for that of your Government copy of a letter dated July 8, 1918, from certain bankers in New York and Chicago, relative to this matter, and a copy of the Department’s reply of July 9, 1918.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing