893.51/2381: Telegram

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

Your telegrams August 21, 7 p.m. and August 23, 1 p.m.

The Department desires to receive the text of the understanding reached by the several interested powers and by them communicated to the Chinese Government in regard to the withholding of financial assistance.

It wishes furthermore to be informed of the purpose of the provisions for supervision of expenditures of the loans referred to, also of such other facts as may enable it to judge of their relation to the understanding mentioned and to the pending proposals for the consortium.

Lansing