861.00/4975
Memorandum by the Third Assistant Secretary of State (Long) of conversation with the Japanese Chargé d’Affaires (Debuchi)
July 24,
1919.
Mr. Debuchi told me this afternoon that the Omsk Government had approached the Government of Japan with the proposal to send two divisions of Japanese troops to Lake Baikal; that the Japanese Government had considered the proposal on the 22nd of this month and declined it. He said that he had only received half of the cable, and could not give me all of the reasons, but that he would later.
B[reckinridge] L[ong]