Letter

To His Excellency John A. Bingham to Hamilton Fish, February 17, 1875

Author

To His Excellency John A. Bingham

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

February 17, 1875

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 376. Mr. Bingham to Mr. Fish.

United States Legation, Japan, Tokei, February 17, 1875. (Received April 2.)

No. 191.]

Sir: I have the honor to acquaint you with the fact, as appears by the official communications of the diplomatic representatives of England and France and his excellency the Japanese minister for foreign affairs, (copies of which, as published in the Japan Herald of date the Kith instant, are herewith inclosed inclosures 1 and 2,) that those two powers have, of their own motion, concluded that the time has now arrived when the small British and French force now in Yokohama should be withdrawn” * * *

Whatever may have led to this action, it seems to me to be a timely recognition of the capacity and the right of Japan to furnish the needful force to maintain the peace within her own territory. This withdrawal of the foreign land force may well be taken as some indication that the two powers named considered this action on their part to be called for in their own interests.

I am, &c.,

JNO. A. BINGHAM.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.