File No. 861.00/1307
The Chargé in China ( Spencer ) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Peking
,
March 17,
1918, 10 a.m.
[Received 10.40 a.m.]
[Received 10.40 a.m.]
Consul at Harbin telegraphs, two hundred Japanese volunteer militia participated in fighting at Blagoveshchensk. Six Japanese [Page 81] killed, twelve wounded. Their leader, a shopkeeper, proved Japanese colonel.
Spencer