763.72/12571: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan ( Morris ) to the Acting Secretary of State
Tokyo
, December 21, 1918—6 p.m.
[Received December 21—12:37 p.m.]
[Received December 21—12:37 p.m.]
Your telegram December 19, 4 p.m. Since the publication of the interview reported in my telegram of November 3, 1 p.m.,3 Okuma has made no public statement with reference to Japan’s ambitions in the South Sea Islands. Reports in the American press are probably based on a special interview granted their representative which were [was] not given out in Japan.
Morris