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. 893.00/597.

The American Ambassador to Germany to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Berlin, October 24, 1911.

Liang Tung Yen, Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, now in Berlin, hopes the United States will regard the danger to life and property sufficiently grave to warrant us urging joint action by the powers with a view to warding off the danger of selfish independent action on the part of any one of them.

Leishman.