793.94/14175a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Hong Kong (Southard)
Washington, October 24, 1938—7
p.m.
4. The Department desires to receive by telegraph from each of the three offices to which this telegram is addressed a confidential comprehensive summary report of the factors believed to be responsible for the rapidity of the Japanese invasion of South China and the comparative ease with which the Japanese have occupied Canton.
Repeated to Canton and Chungking.
Hull