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JAPAN
DEPART EITAL-
Decypher.
Sir C. Greene (Tokyo)
December 8th. 1915,
D. 2.35.p.m.
December 8th, 1915.
R. 3.55.p.m.
No. 506,
244
Ly telegra 10. 504, paragraph 3.
If men are found Japanese Goverment will be obliged in ordinary course to deport them on earliest steamer leaving after their arrest which may be going
to United States.
If however it were certain that they would be pre- vented from landing in United States there would be good reason for putting then instead on board boat for
Shanghai.
Can you ascertain through Washington whether in view of fact that men will be deported from here as undesirables and will have neither passports properly visé nor landing certificates the United States Govern- ment would be willing to prevent them from landing?
Japanese Goverment attaches importance to this point as such an attitude on the part of United States Goverment would strengthen their own position if they are attacked for sending men to Shanghai which they say they are anxious to do to oblige us.
Repeated to India.
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