Office of the Historian

894.48B/3: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Woods) to the Secretary of State22

Iwaki [undated].
[Received September 4, 1923—3:21 a.m.]

All Americans believed safe. All Embassy buildings totally destroyed but no one in Embassy injured. Food situation very acute. Send rations at once from Philippines.

Woods
  1. This message was the first report to the Department by the Ambassador in Japan after the earthquake. It was sent Sept. 2 by radio from a Japanese warship.↩