793.94/8883: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Hankow (Josselyn)
Yesterday the Japanese Chargé d’Affaires called at the Department43 and during the conversation which he had with an officer of the Department he inquired whether the Department had received any reports of anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese at Hankow and made the statement that anti-Japanese sentiment at that place was growing and that his Government was apprehensive with regard to it.
The Department desires that you report promptly by telegraph in regard to the extent and character of anti-Japanese feeling among the Chinese at Hankow during the past 3 months, describing particularly the situation in that regard now existing.
Please send copies of report to Embassy.
- See memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, July 19, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 328.↩