793.94/11471: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 5—6:50 a.m.]
1089. Reference my number 1086 of December 4, 4 p.m. Secretary of the Municipal Council informs me by telephone this morning that last evening the Japanese Consul General talked with Commissioner of Police saying that the memorandum had been drawn up by junior officers, that General Matsui and he were considering withdrawing the memorandum and that he hoped if the Commissioner had not reported the memorandum to the Council he would withhold it. Commissioner replied that he had already reported the memorandum to the Council.
Repeated to Tokyo.