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File No. 893.00/580.

The American Ambassador to Germany to the Secretary of State .

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
American Embassy,
Berlin , October 17, 1911 .

The German Government is disposed to share views expressed in your October 14 as to advisability of concentration in open ports; but if such advice be given, considers it prudent to convey it without public proclamation, which might tend to alarm Chinese Government and excite native population. The German Government does not consider the present situation to call for action by the powers beyond the assembling of war vessels already in Chinese waters.

Leishman