Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1934, The Far East, Volume III

893.6363 Manchuria/42: Telegram

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

Tokyo, August 31, 1934—2 p.m.
[Received August 31—5:37 a.m.]

191. Department’s 149, August 29, 5 p.m.

1. I entirely concur with the Department’s views and have therefore today transmitted the Department’s informal memorandum to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

2. I have been informed by Mr. Goold, general manager in Japan of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company, that the Standard, Rising Sun (Shell interests) and Texas Oil Companies have all agreed not to submit bids for the supply of crude oil for the Manchuria Oil Company which is now asking for bids for crude oil for the refinery being built at Dairen.

3. Despite reports from Mukden that the proposed oil monopoly might be changed to a licensing system, Hashimoto, president of the Manchuria Oil Company, recently told Goold that the monopoly plan would certainly be carried out but that the date of enforcement had not been fixed.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew