Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1932, The Far East, Volume III

793.94/3872: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, February 2, 1932—7 p.m.
[Received February 2—7:55 a.m.]

My telegram of January 31, 11 p.m. At 2:15 this afternoon I received oral communication from Japanese Consulate General that instructions had been received from Tokyo that the proposal made at the meeting on Sunday, January 31st, could not be accepted. Truce appears to be broken as heavy firing began shortly after 2 o’clock. Japanese Consul General denied to me over telephone that truce broken stating that Japanese had been attacked and were only replying. Japanese aeroplanes have been in the air since 2 o’clock.

Repeated to the Legation and Nanking.

Cunningham