Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume I

763.72119/2678: Telegram

The Minister in China ( Reinsch ) to the Secretary of State

Peking , November 18, 1918—4 p.m.
[Received 4:19 p.m.]

Japanese Legation has intimated in several quarters the Japanese Government may be found ready to settle the Shantung question by returning the Kiaochow leased territory to China in accordance with the original declaration of that Government in 1914² and that under such circumstances there would be no occasion for China to be represented at the Peace Conference.

Reinsch

2. See telegram from the Ambassador in Japan, Aug. 15, 1914, midnight. Foreign Relations, 1914, supp., p. 170.