861.77/611: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)
4037. Repeat to Paris and Rome. Am[erican] mission being advised direct. Referring to Department’s No. 3991, Jan. 10 [9], 7 p.m.33 Following telegram from Ambassador Morris at Tokio, January 9, 12 midnight, gives final status of railway negotiations. The Department is authorizing Mr. Morris to proceed to Vladivostok in the near future to settle preliminary arrangements and has told him that he and Stevens can go ahead with the plan as soon as we notify him that Japanese Ambassador at Washington has presented the matter formally to this Government, at which time we will also instruct you to give formal notification to the government to which you are accredited. In the meanwhile please keep the government to which you are accredited fully advised, orally, of the status of the situation to date.
[Here follows text of telegram from the Ambassador in Japan, January 9, 12 midnight, with final sentence omitted, printed ante, p. 236.]
- Not printed; it communicated the text of telegram from the Ambassador in Japan, Dec. 27, 1918, 10 p.m. (Foreign Relations, 1918, Russia, vol. iii, p. 301), which telegram contained the text of railway plan printed infra.↩