793.94/2037: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Nanking (Peck)

91. For the Minister: Legation’s 740, October 10 [11], 8 a.m. In view of your 748, October 12, 8 p.m., you are authorized in reply to inform the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that the American Government is expecting momentarily to receive from American official sources a full report with regard to the incident at Chinchow.

Stimson