Office of the Historian

893.51/2385: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Tenney)

Washington, September 22, 1919, 5 p.m.

Your August 26, 6 p.m.

Please ascertain and advise the Department as precisely as possible what powers have been entrusted to Hsu En Yuan. It is particularly desired to know whether he is authorized to renew the existing Chicago Bank loan of $5,000,00017 and whether he is empowered to negotiate for the supplementary loan of $25,000,000 contemplated by the contract.

Phillips
  1. See ibid., 1916, pp. 138–143.↩