Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.00/740.

The American Ambassador to Japan to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, December 7, 1911.

I am authorized by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to say that if hostilities continue and become aggravated the Japanese Government may consider intervention to be necessary.

Bryan.