793.94/3598: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Forbes) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 22—7:49 a.m.]
21. Japanese have despatched one cruiser, one airplane carrier and four destroyers to Shanghai with landing force of four to five hundred men.
The Government here state that they regard the disturbance as purely local like Tsingtau or Foochow but feel that some assurance may be necessary to prevent further rioting. Foreign Office states verbally that the Japanese Consul General has been instructed to take all questions up with the Chinese local authorities and/or with the [Page 47] Municipal Council. No representations are to be made at Nanking at least for the present.
Repeated Peiping.