793.94/13580: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 29—7 a.m.]
1043. After repeated efforts on the part of the Commanding Officer of the Fourth Marines to persuade the Japanese military authorities [Page 243] to live up to a “gentleman’s agreement” entered into some time ago by which armed men of the Japanese forces would not pass through the American defense sector, Colonel Price notified the Japanese military authorities yesterday that the Marine Corps traffic control posts would be at once reestablished in the American sector and that the passage through the sector of armed men would be stopped. There have been daily violations of the understanding by Japanese men under arms passing through the sector for some time and these have repeatedly been brought to the attention of the Japanese military authorities by Colonel Price.
Repeated to Hankow, Peiping and Tokyo.