File No. 893.00/804.
The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador to Great Britain.
Washington, December 21, 1911.
The Japanese embassy refers to the views of the Japanese Government mentioned in the Department’s telegram of today,1 and alludes to previous good offices of the British Consul General at Hankow in connection with the armistice; then continues: “In view of what has thus been reached” [etc. to the end of the above-printed undated Japanese memorandum received December 21].
Having thus learned of this bilateral understanding between Japan and Great Britain to assist the contending parties, this Government would be glad to have any information which the British Government may care to give as to the nature and scope of the proposed step and its relation to the policy of concerted action hitherto adhered to.
- Not printed. It mentioned the Japanese memorandum of December 18, and quoted the Department’s response of December 21.↩