Office of the Historian

693.113 (Manchuria) Petroleum/48: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, April 12, 1934—noon.
[Received April 12—12:47 a.m.]

67. Referring Peiping’s number 160, April 10, noon. British Embassy informs me that a second secretary mentioned the matter of [Page 707] the Dairen oil discrimination informally to a subordinate official of the Foreign Office last week but that no formal representations have been made. Also that the British Consul at Dairen has been authorized to associate himself with representations being made on this subject by the foreign oil companies at Dairen.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew