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

File No. 893.51/1853

Ambassador Sharp to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Embassy,
Paris, December 21, 1917, 10 p.m.

2930. Foreign Office replies to my note based on your 2838, November 22, 3 p.m., that the French Government shares the views of the American Government and that it hastened to request the French financial groups interested in Chinese affairs to submit a proposition of participation in the Japanese advance of 2,000,000 pounds.

Sharp