893.102S/2155: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, August 1, 1940—1
p.m.
[Received August 1—7 a.m.]
[Received August 1—7 a.m.]
728. The deterioration of the situation at Shanghai mentioned in my 657, July 19, 1 p.m. continues:
- 1.
- My French colleague14 informs me that on July 27 the Japanese Consul General handed him a memorandum demanding that the present judges of the special Chinese courts in the French Concession cease functioning and that Nanking appointees take over their duties. French Consul General gained impression that Japanese Consul General’s interest was to make the matter for record and informed his Japanese colleague that he would study the matter.
- 2.
- I am confidentially informed Mayor Fu has now requested cooperation of International Settlement in arresting 87 proscribed Chinese. This may be an indirect attack on the Chinese courts in the Settlement. His request is receiving the Council’s attention.
- 3.
- Labor troubles, apparently inspired, are increasing.
- 4.
- Japanese restrictions are effectively preventing American goods from being shipped to the interior from Shanghai.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping. Code sent by air mail to Tokyo.
Butrick
- P. Augé, French Consul General ad interim.↩