Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 1, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72/8583

The Ambassador in Japan ( Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Tokyo, January 20, 1918, 7 p.m.
[Received January 21, 9.18 a.m.]

Your January 10, 2 p.m. No decree has been issued transferring the islands from military to civil administration and the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs states that no such transfer has been effected or so far as he knows is contemplated by the Government.

Morris