793.94/909: Telegram

The Chargé in Japan (Atherton) to the Acting Secretary of State

The vernacular press announces that Yoshizawa, former Counsellor of the Japanese Legation Peking has proceeded to China with the approval of the Foreign Office and the War Office to negotiate unofficially with prominent Chinese concerning the retrocession of Japan’s rights in Shantung to China according to previous agreement between the two countries. Retrocession to be realized after the ratification of the peace treaty by Japan. Peking informed.

Atherton