Office of the Historian

793.94/2540: Telegram

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

[Paraphrase]
Shanghai, November 9, 1931—noon.
[Received November 9—2:14 a.m.]

May I communicate the substance of your November 7, 2 p.m.,75 informally through the Consul General at Nanking to the Chinese Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs? The Chinese Foreign Office apparently has information that a communication of this sort has been made.

Johnson
  1. Not printed; it gave the principal points of the memorandum delivered to the Japanese Foreign Office on November 5. For text of memorandum, see telegram No. 217, November 3, 1931, to the Chargé in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 34.↩