Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72/581.

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

American Embassy,
Tokyo, August 24, 1914, 5 p.m.
[Received 9 a.m.]

[Telegram]

Negotiations with favorable prospects for the withdrawal of the Austrian war vessel Kaiserin Elizabeth from Tsingtao and her disarmament and internment at Shanghai. If successful, Austrian Ambassador will not leave. Japan seems agreeable to proposal.

Guthrie