Office of the Historian

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China ( MacMurray)1

No. 844
Washington, July 15, 1918.

Sir: Adverting to the Department’s telegram of July 11, 4 p.m., on the subject of the proposed organization of a consortium for the purpose of making a loan to China, there is enclosed herewith for your confidential information 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.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
William Phillips
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Ambassadors in Great Britain (No. 6017), France (No. 2189), and Japan (No. 82).↩