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File No. 763.72115/3271

The Minister in China ( Reinsch) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Peking, February 20, 1918, 4 p.m.
[Received February 20, 11.36 a.m.]

Your February 19, 7 p.m.1 British Minister informs me the British Government hopes that the American Government may be willing to share with it and the French the expenses of deportation and internment of enemy subjects from China. I have asked him to suggest the matter be taken up with you at Washington with full information on probable cost.

Reinsch
  1. No record of a Department telegram of this date and hour; possibly meant for the Minister’s telegram of Feb. 19, 6 p.m., not printed. (File No. 763.72119/1347.)↩