693.002 Manchuria/127: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 30—8 a.m.]
318. Referring to Department’s telegram No. 211, June 27, 5 p.m., the Inspector General of Customs confirms absolutely the statement quoted. He also stated that the Commissioner of Dairen informed the Inspector General that the Commissioner had been warned by Kanai, chief of the section of Foreign Affairs of the Kwantung Government, [Page 124] not to forward the funds to Shanghai and but for this warning the Commissioner would have forwarded them. The quotation is almost literally from a statement issued by the Inspector General on the 25th to the press.