File No. 893.00/1105.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador to France.
Washington, February 25, 1912—8 p.m.
Referring to Secretary Knox’s note [of February 3] to the German Ambassador here, the substance of which was sent you through the Embassy at Berlin on February 5, the British and German Governments state that the substance of the note is quite in accord with their own attitude. The Governments of Japan and of Russia also concur with the United States in the view that the policy of nonintervention and of common action for the protection of the common interests in China in the present crisis has been and still is the wisest course for the powers concerned to pursue.
Repeat to embassies at London, Berlin, Rome, and St. Petersburg for their information.