Office of the Historian

393.1163P92/125: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, June 23, 1938—1 p.m.
[Received June 23—8:25 a.m.]

889. Following from Tokyo:

“403, June 23, nonn. Your May 28, 10 a.m.; Department’s 343, May 26, 6 p.m.76—American Presbyterian Mission, Lini. Following the recent return of of the commission referred to in our 385, June 16, 6 p.m., the Foreign Office has now given us oral assurances that their note of May 13 should not be interpreted as an indication of unwillingness to compensate mission for damages sustained and that this would be given equal consideration with all other similar cases; the Foreign Office further stated that there was no reason to treat this case differently from any other.

We therefore propose to take no further action in this case unless instructed.

Please repeat to Hankow and to Department as our 403, June 23, noon. Grew.”

Lockhart
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