124.93/79: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Kellogg) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 1—2:01 p.m.]
302. I have had a conversation at the Foreign Office based on Department’s telegram 236 of July 28 [26]98 with the result that I am informed that the Foreign Office is telegraphing the British Ambassador in Japan to suggest to the Japanese Government that it would be well for the great powers to inform the Chinese Government that while there is disorder and disunion in China and while adequate protection is not given to the rights of foreign [Page 474] nationals they are not willing to change the rank of their missions in China. The Foreign Office is authorizing the British Ambassador in Japan to say that instructions will be sent to the British Minister in China to act with the Japanese Minister there if the Japanese will instruct their Minister in this sense. It is the hope of the Foreign Office that similar action at Tokyo will be taken by the Department of State.
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