Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/1012

The Minister in China (Reinsch) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Peking, September 30, 1914, 12 midnight.
[Received 5:30 p.m.]

[Telegram]

I am reliably informed that members of Japanese Legation have urged upon representatives of the press with a view to publication the argument as to the liability of the Shantung Railway to seizure which was reported in the Legation’s September 29, 7 p.m.

I learn that British Legation has telegraphed its Government urging that action be taken to restrain the Japanese from occupying railway.

Reinsch