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File No. 763.72/317

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan ( Guthrie )

Department of State,
Washington , August 11, 1914, 5 p.m.

[Telegram]

Your telegram of August 11, 1 p.m. The Department doubts whether it may properly and lawfully become a medium of communication between a belligerent Government and its own diplomats. But the Department is on its own account making inquiry of the German Government respecting the possibility of circumscribing the area of hostilities in the Far East and preserving there the status quo. You will be informed of the result.

Bryan