Office of the Historian

793.94/2185: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, October 17, 1931—7 a.m.
[Received 11:16 a.m.]

783. Legation’s 774, October 15, 9 a.m. In reply to inquiry from Hanson [and] Salisbury I have informed them that the Legation assumed it would not be necessary for them to proceed to Chinchow for the present. Does the Department wish them to make an independent investigation of the bombing?71

For the Minister:
Engert
  1. The Department answered “no” in its telegram No. 387, October 18, 1931, 11 a.m.↩