File No. 861.00/1008 b
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Morris)
[Telegram]
Washington, January
11, 1918, 7 p.m.
Russian Ambassador to-day informed the Department that he had received yesterday and to-day telegrams from his colleagues at Tokyo, Paris, and London all agreeing in conviction that Japan is preparing to occupy Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. Please discreetly ascertain and report what foundation if any for these suspicions of Russian Ambassadors. Repeat to Peking for similar action.
Polk