This is it; word for word, as it was copied from the
print taken in the Herr Schmidt's stateroom:
Germany sanctions and will not obstruct Japan in any colonization
intention Japan entertained as regards the Far East, and would not
obstruct the acquiring of coaling stations in the South Seas other
than New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Germany would not
prevent the acquisition of Germany vessels by Japan providing such
vessels were not auxiliary cruisers of the Imperial German Navy.
Germany wishes it understood that in the event of a conflict between
Japan and another nation, Germany will maintain a strict neutrality in
any event not affecting Germany itself. Germany expresses a higher
regard for the Japanese nation and desires closer contact with Japan.
This document, as has been stated, was initialed with the letters W
and R, which is sometimes the way the Kaiser O. K.'s any diplomatic
document. In any event it had a regular serial number; in this
instance number twenty-four of the German Foreign Office.
Of course the acquisition of this document by Great Britain relieved
the minds of the English statesman. There was not as they had feared
a possible menace in understanding between Germany and Japan. It was
simply an agreement by Germany not to intervene in any colonization
scheme of the Japanese in the islands of the Pacific. In return for
this it was understood that Japan was to do even more thoroughly what
she has done in the past.
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