Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] regretting that there was no cruiser available to visit the island of Yap [in the Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean], which had been taken over [from Germany] by Japan. WSC states that there was no military reason to eject the Japanese, and that the Admiralty would strongly deprecate any suspicious or ungracious act towards Japan. [Typescript copy].