File No. 793.94/252.
Minister Reinsch to the Secretary of State.
Peking, March 17, 1915—7 p.m.
In accordance with instructions in your March 13, 6 p.m., I have called the attention of the Foreign Office to the treaty provisions cited. The Minister of Foreign Affairs assures me that the fullest consideration was being given to treaty rights.
At the meeting yesterday the demands relating to Manchuria and Mongolia were further discussed. The Japanese proposed that twenty-seven new trade marts should be opened; moreover that permission should be extended for Japanese settlement in the interior without restriction. The Chinese are ready to adopt former alternative but not both.
Your telegram of March 13, 6 p.m., repeated from Tokyo implies a communication by Japan supplementary to the statement of demands communicated early in detail to our Embassy at Tokyo. If such supplementary statement has been made I beg to request that its text be quoted to me for information.