Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/833

The Minister in Denmark (Egan) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Copenhagen, undated.
[Received September 10, 1914, 4:25 p.m.]

[Telegram]

For German Ambassador, Washington:

English press reports state Japanese Government proposes to extend war to regions east of Hwang-ho River, to expel all Germans not only from Dalny but from Mukden, Changchun and even Tientsin. Please ask State Department to find out through American representatives, Tokyo, Peking, whether reports are true and, if so, to protest with Japanese Government against measures affecting Germans residing in neutral Chinese territory.

Imperial Foreign Office.

Zimmermann

American Minister