600.939/227: Telegram
The First Secretary of Embassy in China (Salisbury) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 23—11 a.m.]
464. Embassy’s 456, July 20, 1 p.m.,52 and Tientsin’s 137, July 22, 3 p.m. A secretary of the Japanese Embassy called this morning and stated informally that embargo will be lifted from most materials not urgently needed by the military, including lambskin plates, lambear plates, lambhead plates, and lambleg plates and all kinds of goat and kid skins but that the embargo continues for the time being on tanned and untanned lambskins. He stated that this means the embargo is lifted on almost all kinds of materials heretofore exported to the United States. He expects detailed and official information will be available in 2 or 3 days.
Repeated to Embassies Hankow, Tokyo and Consulate Tientsin.
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