File No. 861.00/2336
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (MacMurray)
[Telegram]
Washington, July 26,
1918, 5 p.m.
Your July 24, 5 p.m. It is felt that it would be entirely appropriate that China should guard the lines of the Chinese Eastern Railway within Manchuria and that she should act alone in so doing.
Polk