Office of the Historian

893.00/14825: Telegram

The Second Secretary of Embassy in China (Paxton) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, November 29, 1941—1 p.m.
[Received December 1—1:47 a.m.]

79. On November 17 the Japanese Consulate General informed this office by telephone that “third party interests” in Nanking were being turned over to the local Chinese authorities. Several inquiries of the “Foreign Office” have elicited the information that “something of the kind” was in process in connection with protection of property but no details have yet been received.

Sent to the Department, repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Shanghai. By mail to Tokyo.

Paxton