Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 793.94/329.

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American Legation,
Peking, May 6, 1915—1 a.m.

The situation remains unchanged. Japanese subjects are under orders leaving Canton, Hankow and other centers; are being concentrated in the Mukden railway settlement; and in Peking are making preparations for leaving. At Tsinanfu new entrenchments were constructed last night. A Japanese cruiser and four destroyers have appeared off Chinwangtao. Conditions in China remain entirely normal, quiet and peaceful.

Reinsch.