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693.002/473: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan ( Grew ) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo , January 31, 1938—4 p.m.
[Received January 31—6:20 a.m.]

59. Department’s 31, January 30, 1 p.m., integrity of Chinese customs. My British colleague received his instructions today and is prepared [Page 640] to act. I have therefore today presented to the Japanese Government a note conforming precisely to the Department’s text.43

Repeated to Shanghai for repetition to Hankow and Peiping.

Grew
  1. See Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 738; the Department on January 31 also replied to the British Embassy’s inquiry on this subject. For reply of the Japanese Foreign Office, on March 22, see ibid., p. 742; it replied likewise to British and French representations.↩