Office of the Historian

493.11/1857: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, April 18, 1934—8 p.m.
[Received April 18—12:05 p.m.]

181. Following is paraphrase of message received from Peck at Nanking in comment on his April 18, 10 a.m., to the Department concerning claims commission:

The action reported in my April 18, 10 a.m., was apparently not contemplated by the Foreign Office when it drafted note verbale of April 16th.5 I am inclined to interpret this partial concession as a diplomatic gesture, confirmation of Sino-Japanese crisis reported in my April 18, 9 a.m.6

Note verbale of April 16th was an unsatisfactory reply to Legation’s recent note on claims commission. It requested list of debtors.

Johnson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See telegram No. 180, April 18, 7 p.m., from the Minister in China, p. 113.↩