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394.1153 Smith Company, Werner G./59: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, September 23, 1938—6 p.m.
[Received September 23—10:18 a.m.]

618. Department’s 536, September 14, 8 p.m., to Shanghai, navigation rights on the Yangtze. My British colleague has recently supplied the Minister for Foreign Affairs with a detailed list of Japanese steamers trading on the Yangtze, supplemented by information on commercial cargoes carried by these vessels, advertisements of sailings of Japanese vessels prepared to carry commercial cargo and passengers on the Yangtze, et cetera. Today we orally referred the Foreign Office to the information supplied by the British Ambassador and made appropriate and further emphatic representations on the basis of Nanking’s 158, September 8, 9 p.m.

Repeated to Nanking.

Grew