Office of the Historian

793.94/8815: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, July 17, 1937—9 p.m.
[Received July 17—11:55 a.m.]

294. A responsible Secretary of the Japanese Embassy has just telephoned to an officer of this mission that the Assistant Japanese Military Attaché, Okido, at 6 o’clock this evening delivered a written memorandum to the Chinese Vice Minister of War to the effect that if the National Government, in disregard of the Ho–Umetsu Agreement, despatches troops including air contingents into North China the Japanese military will take whatever measures they consider necessary and any eventualities which may develop from those steps will be the sole responsibility of the Chinese Government.

2. Sent to the Department, Peiping, Shanghai, Tokyo.

Peck