793.94/3582: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 20—10:10 a.m.]
During the past week there have been at least three clashes between Chinese and Japanese, the most serious of which occurred early January 20th when a mob of Japanese set fire to a small Chinese factory just beyond Settlement limits apparently as a reprisal for an attack on Japanese monks on January 18th. In the ensuing fracas one Chinese policeman of the International Settlement was killed and several wounded, also one Japanese killed and two others wounded. Japanese member of the Council has declared to Council that Japanese were in the wrong and there will be probably no complications as regards the Settlement authorities but the presence in Shanghai of irresponsible elements among both Chinese and Japanese might easily provoke much more serious disobedience in the future.
Repeated to the Legation.