793.94/9639: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart), at Peiping
Washington, September 1, 1937—5
p.m.
229. Your 470, August 24, 5 p.m.,94 paragraph 4. If it has not already done so please request Tientsin to repeat to you Department’s 14, August 24, 4 p.m., and the exchange of telegrams between Tientsin and Nanking in regard to Japanese censorship of mails at Tientsin.
You are authorized to take up with the appropriate Japanese authorities in Peiping the matter of the censorship of mails. In doing so, you should be guided by the Department’s 14, August 24, 4 p.m. to Tientsin.
Hull