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

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

Department of State,
Washington , September 24, 1914.

Sir: Receipt is acknowledged of your despatch of August 27, 1914, enclosing copies of correspondence passing between the Embassy and the Great Northern and Pacific Mail Steamship Companies, with reference to the transportation on ships of those companies of Austrian and German reservists from Japan to the United States. The Department approves your course in this matter.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing