793.94/9225: Telegram
The Consul at Tsingtao (Sokobin) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 7—8:50 a.m.]
American and British Admirals in company with British Consul General and myself interviewed the Mayor of Tsingtao yesterday on the present situation in this city. The Mayor reiterated that if the Japanese landed in Tsingtao he could not give up the city without such resistance as he could make.
To me personally, notwithstanding Mayor’s reassertion that he would resist a landing of Japanese forces, his attitude appeared to be less obdurate than that reflected in his interview with the British Consul General as reported in my telegram of August 3, 9 a.m.66
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