393.1115/3192: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received noon.]
675. Following from Hankow.
“May 16, noon. Reference telegram May 13, 7 a.m. from Foochow regarding protection of Americans there. Please expedite reply, repeat Foochow’s telegram to Tokyo and add following:
‘Unless you see reasons to the contrary, I suggest that it would he advisable to notify Japanese Government of concentration of American nationals at Tsangchienshan at Foochow, and in addition supply list of places in the interior at which Americans now are.’
You will doubtless wish to make similar communication to the Japanese authorities at Shanghai. Please repeat to Washington. Johnson.”