893.00/5508: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Japan (Caffery)

154. Your 227, September 10, 5 p.m. You may orally communicate to Baron Shidehara the essential portion of the first paragraph [Page 374] of the Department’s 151, September 10, 4 p.m., down to and including “developments in China.”

You may repeat to Peking for its information the above mentioned first paragraph of the Department’s 151.

Hughes