494.11/69: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Tientsin (Caldwell)
Washington, March 11, 1938—6
p.m.
45. Your 56, March 10, noon. Department assumes that Japanese inquiry relates to claims arising in your consular district. If so Department [Page 290] has no objection to your furnishing informally the information requested provided it is made clear that other cases of which you have no knowledge may have arisen and also that the amounts indicated are not necessarily final in all cases.
Hull