Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume III

File No. 861.77/494b

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

[Telegram—Extract]

Washington, September 24, 1918, 8 p.m.

Referring your September 19 [18], following is complete text of telegram sent to London, Paris, and Rome September 13 and handed to Japanese Ambassador and Chinese Minister here September 14² with statement that it represented whole purpose of United States on subject it covers, without any reservations whatever. Repeat to Peking with instructions to send to Harbin and to Vladivostok for Ambassador and Stevens.

[Here follows telegram No. 1337 of September 13, noon, to the Ambassador in Great Britain, ante, page 249.]

Lansing

2. See ante, pp. 252 and 253.