Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.51/416.

The American Ambassador to Japan to the Secretary of State .

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo , May 13, 1911 .

The Minister for Foreign Affairs today inquired whether participation if granted would place Japan in a position superior to an ordinary bondholder. He said that Japan is greatly concerned in the Chinese currency reform, especially as to the purposes of the Manchurian allotment.

O’Brien.