Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 123G98/28

Chargé Wheeler to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams]

American Embassy,
Tokyo , March 8, 1917, 9 p.m.

It is my painful duty to inform you that the Ambassador died suddenly at 8 tonight of apoplexy. In accordance with instructions to diplomatic officers, I have assumed charge as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.

Wheeler