Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72112/2620

The Ambassador in Japan (Guthrie) to the Secretary of State

No. 516
Tokyo, May 17, 1916 .
[Received June 9.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the information of the Department, copy of instructions received from the Imperial Foreign Office which have been issued by the Japanese Navy Department for the guidance of its naval officers in boarding merchant vessels.1

Copies of these instructions have been sent to American consular officers in this Empire, as well as to the naval attaché of this Embassy.

I have [etc.]

Geo. W. Guthrie
  1. Not printed; similar to those conveyed in the British Ambassador’s note No, 67 of March 11, 1916, ante, p. 680.↩