893.51/2917: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan (Bell) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 11—9:49 a.m.]
413. Your 295 July 29,10 p.m. Japanese Foreign Office states that views of Japanese Government on proposed representations to China in connection with payment of Hukuang Tientsin-Pukow Railway coupons are as expressed in my 337, July 11, noon [10 a.m.], and that the Japanese Minister at Peking was notified of his Government’s views and was instructed at that time that when the matter should come before the Ministers in China of the interested powers he should in harmony with them take such action as might be proper in the circumstances. Repeated to Peking together with my 337, July 11, noon [10 a.m.].