Office of the Historian

793.94/6308: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, May 23, 1933—8 p.m.
[Received May 23—8:02 a.m.]

105. I have just been told by what is believed to be a reliable source that instructions have been sent to the Japanese troops in North China not to enter Peiping and that in case of any tendency to break in, another more drastic order to the same effect is in readiness.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew