TUMULTY,
White House, Washington.
Japanese situation hanging by a thread. They are in conference now. These are terrible days for the President physically and otherwise.
GRAYSON.
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Received at The White House, Washington,
May 1, 1919.
Paris.
TUMULTY,
White House, Washington.
The solution of the Kiauchau question is regarded here both generally and by special friends of China, like Charles R. Crane, as remarkably favourable and fortunate considering its rotten and complicated past and the tangle of secret treaties in which she was enmeshed and from which she had to be extricated. It is regarded as a wonderful victory for the President. The Japanese themselves admit that they have made far greater concessions than they had even dreamed would be required of them. The Chinese agreed that they have great confidence in their interests being safeguarded in every way and they appreciate that the League of Nations eventually will look after them.
GRAYSON.
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