861.77/1568: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)
655. We are repeating telegram sent to the Embassy in Japan. [Here follows telegram no. 232, June 19, to the Chargé in Japan, printed supra.]
Inform British Foreign Office informally regarding attitude of this Government as shown in above telegram. Also inform the Foreign Office that the advisability of having the Chinese Eastern Railway financed by the consortium has been urged upon the American group by the Department.
The Department desires that you ask the Foreign Office whether it would be able when requesting the French Government to cooperate in this to also urge that France pay the amounts which she owes the Chinese Eastern for the military use of the railway. It is also our understanding that obligation for the amounts owed to the railway in connection with the evacuation of the Czech troops is assumed by the French Government.