Office of the Historian

394.1153 Smith Company, Werner G./13: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart)

Washington, June 16, 1938—3 p.m.

Following for Tokyo:

“198. Reference Shanghai’s 811, June 10, 9 p.m., 820, June 11, 8 p.m., and Nanking’s 115, June 15, noon,66 which Shanghai has been requested to repeat to you, in regard to wood oil of Werner G. Smith Company.

Please lodge an emphatic protest with the Japanese Foreign Office against the continued detention by the Japanese naval authorities of this American property and state that the Department is becoming concerned by reason of the extended delay of release and the unwarranted conditions which those responsible for the detention are seeking to attach to the release.”

Repeat to Tokyo Nanking’s 115, June 15, noon.

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  1. Telegrams No. 820 and No. 115 not printed.↩