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

File No. 893.00/2715

Minister Reinsch to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Peking, October 1, 1917, 10 p.m.

Mandates made public yesterday providing for, first; establishment of a National Council to meet here within a month for the purpose of revising and enacting laws concerning parliamentary organization and elections, but to perform no other legislative functions: second; establishing a special bureau to prepare for the early convocation of Parliament: third; ordering arrest of Sun Yat-sen and Wu Ching-lien and investigation of other members of the Provisional Government and of extraordinary parliament now in session at Canton.

[Unsigned]