Office of the Historian

894.48B/39: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 4, 1923.
[Received September 8—12:45 a.m.]

This disaster without precedent in history, one-half million dead, several million destitute and homeless, there is utter lack every necessity. President of the United States should issue an appeal at once to the American people relief along lines mentioned in my previous telegrams.

Woods