File No. 763.72/317
The Ambassador in Japan (Guthrie) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, August 11, 1914, 1 p.m.
[Received 8 a.m.]
[Telegram]
Counselor of German Embassy informs me that his Ambassador anticipates proposition from Japan for neutralization of Orient. Ambassador has no direct communication with Berlin and he requests you to inform his Government and says that he advises this arrangement and desires instructions so that he may be prepared to act if proposition is made. Unless the arrangement is made Ambassador believes that attack will be made on German possessions and considers resistance hopeless. I have had no communications with the Foreign Office on the subject.