Office of the Historian

393.1115/838: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, September 15, 1937—5 p.m.
[Received September 15—10:55 a.m.]

662. Your [Shanghai’s] 793 [693], September 13, noon. Please inform Japanese Consul when giving him information contained in Hankow’s September 14, 4 p.m.,33 that Hankow will continue to send American citizens on down trains of Canton–Hankow line and that it is our hope that Japanese will do nothing to make this impossible.

Sent to Shanghai, Hankow.

Johnson
  1. Quoted in Department’s telegram No. 207, September 14, 8 p.m., p. 327.↩