File No. 861.00/2439b
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in China ( MacMurray )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
August 5,
1918, 7 p.m.
It is reported by Admiral Knight that a German force is from ten to twenty miles inside the Manchurian border. If this is so it would seem to necessitate the prompt and forceful action of the Chinese military authorities.
Polk