Office of the Historian

793.94/9560: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)

Washington, August 24, 1937—4 p.m.

173. Your 500, August 23, 7 p.m., and the Department’s 171, August 23, 7 p.m.59 The Department approves of your action.

With regard to paragraph 1, second sentence of your telegram under reference, on August 23, the Embassy at Tokyo under instructions from the Department addressed a formal note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs asking for formal assurance by the Japanese Government that the operations of the Japanese armed forces in China would not be directed against or into the city of Tsingtao. The Vice Minister to whom the Ambassador delivered the note said that the matter would be studied.

You may inform your interested colleagues of the foregoing.

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