Office of the Historian

793.94/9296: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, August 11 [12?] 1937—3 p.m.
[Received August 12—5 a.m.]

454. Secretary of the Joint Commission informs me that Japanese Consul General has asked for an immediate meeting of the Commission as Chinese troops are moving into the Shanghai area in violation of the 1932 Truce Agreement.79a

Repeated to Nanking.

Gauss
  1. Signed at Shanghai, May 5, 1932, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 217.↩