793.943 Manchuria/43: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 25—3 p.m.]
843. Department’s 382, November 28, 3 p.m. Following from Mukden:
“No. 16, December 23, 3 p.m. Reference Department’s No. 380 and 382 to the Embassy November 26, 2 p.m., and November 28, 3 p.m.
This Office today received a letter from the Chief of the Political Bureau of the Foreign Office stating that foreign juridical persons established for profit whose object is to do business in Manchuria ‘must’ be established as new juridical persons established and registered under Manchukuo law.
There are two such American firms in Mukden.
Instructions are requested as to what reply if any is to be made to the Foreign Office.”
Repeated to Harbin.