Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume II

File No. 861.00/1066

The Ambassador in Japan (Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Tokyo, February 8, 1918, 10 p.m.
[Received February 8, 10.40 a.m.]

French Ambassador has just received instructions from his Government to join his British colleague in acceding to request of the Japanese Government reported my telegram of January 17, 5 p.m.,¹ for free hand in the event of intervention in Siberia. British Ambassador has as yet received no reply from his Government.

Morris

1. Ante, p. 29.