Office of the Historian

793.94/6636: Telegram

The Counselor of Legation in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, May 3, 1934—11 a.m.
[Received May 3—12:12 a.m.]

198. Following from Minister at Nanking May 2, 4 p.m.

“Hsu Mo91 informed me today that Chinese Government had inquired of British Government an explanation of reference in Sir John Simon’s statement on April 30 to especial rights of Japan ‘recognized by the other powers’”.

Gauss
  1. Political Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩