693.002 Manchuria/119: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
211. The New York Herald-Tribune of June 25 carries an article by Victor Keen under Shanghai date line June 24 stating that the Japanese Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs at Dairen justifies his action in refusing to remit local revenues to Shanghai by stating that he has been advised by the chief of the section of foreign affairs of the Kwantung government at Port Arthur that “remittances of revenue to Shanghai under present circumstances would be highly provocative, and he has good reasons to believe that countermeasures which the Manchoukuo authorities might adopt if remittances were sent would affect Japanese interests in the Kwantung leased territory.”
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