893.811/1014: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:10 p.m.]
619. Our 566, August 30, 1 p.m., Whangpoo Conservancy. The following is a translation of a note dated September 23 received in reply to our note of August 29th: [Page 185]
“In keeping with the situation following the occupation of Shanghai and its environs by the Japanese military forces, the operations, et cetera, of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board have already been, and are at present, the subject of conversations on the part of that Board with the Japanese Consulate General at Shanghai; and, according to a report received from the Consulate General, they have been able to evolve, to a certain degree, a definite plan.
I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I believe the most appropriate method for the solution of this case to be the progression of the conversations between the parties concerned in Shanghai and in that light, I have instructed the Consulate General in Shanghai to endeavor to reach a solution”.