793.74/4370: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
51. For the Minister. Your February 23, 6 P.M., paragraph 4. Following information communicated to me today by the British Foreign Minister, I am telegraphing the Ambassador at Tokyo1 to cooperate with the British Ambassador and the French and Italian Ambassadors in making representations to the Japanese Government requesting (1) that Japan move her war vessels from their present anchorage to a point further down the river where they will not draw fire from the Chinese which will endanger the Settlement and the ships of other nations lying in the river and (2) that in the event Japan is contemplating sending reinforcements, it will arrange not to land them in the Settlement but at such points as will not draw fire which [Page 437] will endanger the Settlement or its inhabitants or the ships of other nations lying in the river.