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. 893.51/949.

The American Ambassador to Germany to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Berlin, June 17, 1912.

The German Government is strongly of the opinion that there must be no deviation from the attitude assumed toward Russia and Japan; that is to say, we can recognize in them only such special rights and privileges in Mongolia and Manchuria as they may have acquired by formal treaties or conventions with the old Chinese Government.

Leishman.