893.00/2624: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan ( Wheeler ) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo
,
June 22, 1917—4 p. m.
[Received 9 a. m.]
[Received 9 a. m.]
My telegram of June 18, 4 p. m.,36 and your telegram of June 19, 4 p. m. just received.37
The draft which the Minister for Foreign Affairs handed me on June 18 with the statement that it was a copy of the memorandum handed on June 15 to the Secretary of State36 contains the declaration “Japan possesses paramount interests both political and economic in China.”
Wheeler