File No. 861.77/298
The Ambassador in Japan ( Morris ) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 21, 9.45 a.m.]
Your February 19, 5 p.m. Stevens and party are arranging to leave for Harbin at once. Emerson is now there. Baldwin contingent consisting of seventy men will remain at Nagasaki awaiting a reply to Stevens’s recent inquiry. An additional credit $50,000 should be cabled to Stevens here. Before he leaves he will arrange to transfer it to Emerson as needed.
In conversation with Viscount Motono 1 yesterday Stevens outlined the plans he had formulated to take railway contingent into Siberia. Motono did not express any objection to these. Was neutral and appeared entirely satisfied.
- Viscount Ichiro Motono, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs.↩