693.002/478: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan ( Grew ) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 2—10:05 a.m.]
69. Our 37, January 17, 4 p.m.49 My British colleague yesterday presented a memorandum to the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs50 reciting the action of a Chinese organization, acting under the orders of the Japanese military authorities at Shanghai, in taking over the Chinese Government internal revenue administration in the International Settlement and the previous voluntary agreements with the Chinese Government concerning the payment of the consolidated tax. The memorandum requests that the Japanese authorities will take no action and will countenance no action by any provisional regime in the areas from which the legitimate Chinese authority has withdrawn which would fail adequately to take into account the obligations of the Chinese Government under the aforementioned agreements.
Repeated to Shanghai.