File No. 763.72/8405
The Ambassador in Japan (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 5, 9.34 p.m.]
Russian Ambassador advises me Minister for Foreign Affairs this afternoon informed him that the Japanese Government yesterday had decided to send to Vladivostok a cruiser which is now coaling [Page 20] and is expected to arrive there about the 9th and that the British Government has ordered a cruiser to proceed there from Hongkong coaling at Nagasaki on the 8th.
I assume that these arrangements have been made in consultation between the British Government and Japanese although British Ambassador made no mention of them in discussing the situation in Vladivostok with me to-day.