Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 5767/114.

Ambassador O’Brien to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, November 11, 1909.

Mr. O’Brien says Japanese minister for foreign, affairs assures him that the Japanese agreement of September 4, 1909, with China does not intend an exclusive claim to mines in Manchuria; that Japan will not oppose a concession by China to any third party finding minerals within the territory in question, and that it was only designed so that neither China nor Japan should operate independently of the other.