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

File No. 793.94/220.

Ambassador Guthrie to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo , February 3, 1915—2 p.m.

Censorship here has forbidden reproduction of reports published in China of Japan’s alleged demands. Yesterday Foreign Office authorized statement by newspapers that these demands involve no infringement of China’s territorial integrity and no impairment of foreign rights in that country.

Guthrie.