Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The Far East, Volume IV

393.115 Standard Vacuum Oil Company/4: Telegram

The Consul at Tsingtao (Sokobin) to the Secretary of State

Tsingtao, September 14, 1937—4 p.m.
[Received September 14—10:25 a.m.]

With reference to my telegram of September 11, 5 p.m.,²⁸ junks destroyed by Japanese warship carried no oil. However, shipment of American oil on 5 junks arrived safely with exception of 114 cases of kerosene which were confiscated by a Japanese warship.

Repeated to Nanking, Peiping.

Sokobin

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