862i.01/46a: Telegram

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

442. For the Ambassador, for transmission to the Foreign Office.

I have transmitted to my Government your memorandum of November 19th15 in reply to the memorandum submitted by me on the 12th of November regarding the island of Yap, to which my Government has directed me to reply as follows:

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[Here follows, mutatis mutandis, the communication to the British Government contained in telegram no. 1199, December 4, 1920, to the Ambassador in Great Britain, beginning with the words “There would appear.” In the paragraph beginning “I am directed” the words “for such purposes” are inserted after the words “free and unhampered use”.]

Davis
  1. See telegram no. 598, Nov. 19, from the Chargé in Japan, p. 264.