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. 893.00/1029.

The German Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

Imperial German Embassy,
Washington, January 31, 1912.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor respectfully to inform your excellency that in view of the development of affairs in the Far East the Imperial Government would desire to obtain confidential information as to the attitude of the Government of the United States toward the said development.

Expressing [etc.],

J. Bernstorff.