Office of the Historian

793.94/784: Telegram

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

Peking, March 15, 1919, 3 p.m.
[Received March 15, 3.14 p.m.]

Your March 11th, 7 p.m. Japanese press in China has published similar reports, also a steady stream of articles calculated to stir up race antagonism. Chinese public hitherto has given little credit to these things although continued repetition particularly of race insinuations [Page 689] might have some effect. Behavior of Japanese populace in Tientsin during the recent disturbance14 is but a natural consequence of such propaganda among Japanese. Am giving modifications statement reiterating purpose of Abbott’s visit.

Reinsch
  1. See vol. ii, pp. 420 ff.↩