Office of the Historian

893.61331/98: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the First Secretary of Embassy in China (Salisbury), at Peiping

Washington, April 14, 1938—4 p.m.

106. Reference Hankow’s 206, April 13, 4 p.m., and your 226, April 12, 5 p.m., and 229, April 13, 4 p.m.1 The Department concurs in the opinion of the Ambassador that the Consul at Tsingtao should be instructed to point out to the Americans concerned the serious dangers involved in their intended travel and to advise them against taking such risks; and that the Consul should refrain from requesting Japanese military protection for Americans proceeding to the railway towns for the purposes indicated.

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  1. Telegram No. 229 not printed.↩