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

File No. 793.94/342.

Chargé Wheeler to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, May 9, 1915—10 a.m.

Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs informs me that a telegram has been received from Hioki in Peking stating that the Chinese Government has unconditionally accepted the ultimatum.

Wheeler.