Office of the Historian

893.00/5707: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Mayer)

Washington, November 5, 1924—6 p.m.

269. Tokyo Embassy telegraphs November 518 that Japanese Consul at Tsingtau advises his Government our Consul there has agreed with Japanese and British colleagues to advise Wu Pei-fu not to land in the event of his arrival there.

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Please advise Consul immediately that the Department could not approve such intervention in Chinese internal affairs.

Repeat to Tokyo as Department’s No. 180.

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