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

File No. 793.94/242.

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American Legation,
Peking, February 26, 1915—7 p.m.

My telegram of February 23, 8 p.m. At Sino-Japanese diplomatic conference yesterday the opening of additional treaty ports in Shantung was agreed to. The Chinese Government refused to accept the wording of preamble of Article II that “the Chinese Government has always acknowledged the special position enjoyed by Japan in South Manchuria and Inner Mongolia” and they will continue to resist the attempt to have a special status of Japan in that region formally sanctioned. Next meeting Sunday [the 28th].

Reinsch.