893.102S/2086: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11 p.m.]
528. For the considerations mentioned in my 512, June 12, 4 p.m., I saw my Italian colleague on June 13. He informed me that he had spoken to his colony and was doing all possible to keep peace and order in Shanghai. He nevertheless felt that a clash is inevitable eventually.
Actually there has recently been an increase in the number of Japanese gendarmes functioning in the British sector (extra-Settlement roads area) and I have learned confidentially that the matter has been drawn to the attention of General Miura, in charge of Japanese gendarmerie.
Repeated to Embassies [at] Chungking and Tokyo.