Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/5150

The Chargé in Japan ( Wheeler) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Tokyo, June 6, 1917, 1 p.m.
[Received June 6, 8.40 a.m.]

Roumanian mission to the United States dispatched, the Chargé d’Affaires at Jassy states, with the approval of the Roumanian Government, and whose object is to organize those of the Roumanian race in the United States for active aid to the latter’s side in the war, sailed to-day from Yokohama by the Tenyo Maru due at San Francisco 23d. It consists of Reverend Brothers Lucaciu and Jean Mota and Lieut. Basile Stoica of the Roumanian Army. It requests customs courtesies and asks that Reverend Brother Lucaciu, Roumanian Church of Trenton, New Jersey, be asked to notify in advance editors of Roumanian newspapers and presidents of Roumanian societies that on its arrival they will be invited to a conference with a view to putting into effect the national plans with which it is charged.1

Wheeler
  1. In regard to this mission, see telegram No. 38, July 2, to the Chargé in Rumania and his reply, No. 95, July 11, post, pp. 114 and 138, respectively.↩