793.94/5767: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 18—6:25 a.m.]
18. My 14, January 17, 4 p.m. This morning several Japanese newspapers published a letter from the German Embassy in Tokyo denying that Germany is supplying arms and munitions to China, pointing out that Germany is not permitted to manufacture any arms except revolvers, and suggesting that the rumor may have originated in the fact that an order from Chinese sources for arms has been received by a German firm in China which acts as representative of an arms factory “in a certain country adjoining Germany.” It also denies the report that 27 German military officers are employed by China.
Repeated to Peiping.