Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 893.51/1846

Mr. G. M. Gest to the Secretary of State

New York City, December 17, 1917.

Sir: In further reference to the inquiries made by the writer regarding the Lee, Higginson and Company contract with the Chinese Government under date of April 7, 1916,²³ I would be pleased to be advised of the attitude you take in the premises as expressed in your letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, also the attitude of the Treasury Department as expressed by them in their letter of reply.

Thanking you for your courtesy in this matter, I beg [etc.]

G. M. Gest

23. For. Rel. 1916, p. 128.