Office of the Historian

793.9414/5: Telegram

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

Washington, June 18, 1935—8 p.m.

171. A report has been obtained from an usually reliable source94 that the Japanese Government is now negotiating at Nanking with the Chinese Government for the purchase of Pratas Reef, situated between Hong Kong and Northern Luzon. Please investigate discreetly and report by telegraph.

Hull
  1. Report from the Naval Attaché in Japan, quoted in letter from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of State, June 14, not printed.↩