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893.51 Con. Ob. American Locomotive Corp./12: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the First Secretary of Embassy in China (Salisbury), at Peiping

Washington, September 2, 1938—6 p.m.

234. Please transmit the following telegram to Ambassador at Chungking and repeat to Tokyo:

“Peiping’s 530, August 30, 3 p.m., in regard to claims of the American Locomotive Sales Corporation and the Chinese Engineering and Development Company against the Pingsui Railway.

Department approves the suggestion that these claims be taken up with the Japanese Foreign Office and, to that end, suggests that you instruct Peiping to prepare and send by mail to the Embassy in Tokyo all information necessary to enable the Embassy there to take appropriate action.”78

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  1. The Embassy in Tokyo sent three notes to the Japanese Foreign Office, dated November 7, setting forth details of the claims against the Peiping–Suiyuan Railway made respectively by the American Locomotive Sales Corporation, the Chinese Engineering and Development Company, Inc., and the Robert W. Hunt Company, Engineers (893.51 Con-Ob. American Locomotive Co./18, 19, 20). See also telegram No. 313, December 27, 5 p.m., to the Chargé in China, p. 583.↩