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Diplomatic History of World War 1:
Negotiations During the War
1. Japanese Intervention
2. Turkish
Intervention
3. Italy's
Entry into the War
4. Bulgaria,
Rumania & Greece
5. Plans
for Partition of the Ottoman Empire
a. Constantinople Agreement
b. Egypt
c. Nejd Treaty and McMahon Letters
d. Sykes-Picot Agreement
e. St.-Jean-de-Maurienne Agreement
Japanese Intervention
Within a month after the declarations of war in Europe,
Japan joined the Allies. Though the British government advised Tokyo
that it did not interpret the AngloJapanese alliance of 1902 as requiring
Japan to enter the European war, hostilities at sea were soon extended
to the Pacific, and the British Dominion governments in Australia and
New Zealand made it clear that they meant to seize Germany's possessions
there. The Japanese government volunteered to enter the war. The British
Foreign Office then suggested that the Japanese might confine their
operations to the Pacific and not attack the German leasehold of Kiaochow
in China, but Japan was not receptive to this proposal. On August 15,
it dispatched an ultimatum to Berlin, demanding the withdrawal of German
naval craft from Japanese and Chinese waters and the unconditional surrender
of the leasehold, "with a view to eventual restoration of the same
to China." The sevenday time limit expired without Germany's replying;
on August 23, the Japanese government formally declared war; and in
October it announced its adhesion to the Pact of London, thus becoming
one of the great Allies and pledging itself to negotiate no separate
peace.
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