Office of the Historian

693.003/556: Telegram

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

Peking, March 25, 1919, noon.
[Received March 25, 9.85 a.m.]

My telegram of January 18, 1 p.m. The Chinese Government is very anxious to know whether the American Government has agreed to the Shanghai tariff revision. I sincerely hope that ratification has been effected as delay until meeting of Congress would mean loss of many millions of dollars to the Chinese Government. The Japanese Government has also made inquiry about this matter.

Reinsch