The Secretary of State to the Japanese Minister.

Personal.]

My Dear Mr. Minister: I inclose herewith, for your information, a copy of the French text of a promemoria (a) in which the Russian Government calls attention to an alleged recent renewal of activity on the part of bands of Chinese in Mongolia, directed against the Russians, and repeats its intention to restrict in future the theater of military operations, provided the powers interested take measures to oblige Japan and China to renounce the idea of enlarging the sphere of military operations and, especially, to avoid carefully the carrying of the war into the provinces east of Mongolia.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.
  1. Printed under Russia, p. 761.