793.94/11701: Telegram

The Commander in Chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet (Yarnell) to the Chief of Named Operations (Leahy)25

0119. An officer Japanese Navy informed Admiral Holt26 at Nanking that the channels through Mudfort and Kiangyin barriers have been made solely for use of the Japanese forces and not for the use of neutral shipping and that passage of H. M. S. Ladybird, U. S. S. Oahu and others of that convoy cannot be taken as a precedent.

  1. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Navy Department.
  2. Commanding British naval forces in the Yangtze.