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

File No. 763.72111/372

The Chargé d’Affaires in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Peking, September 3, 1914.
[Received 3 p.m.]

[Telegram]

A circular from the Foreign Office to-day states that German forces in the vicinity of Kiaochow and British and Japanese there and at Lungkow and Laichow are taking military action in disregard of the declared neutrality of Chinese territory, and, citing precedent of Liaotung region in the Russo-Japanese war, it announces inability of the Chinese Government to preserve the neutrality of its territory in the regions affected by those operations.

MacMurray