393.1162/105: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, June 24, 1938—9
a.m.
[Received June 24—7 a.m.]
[Received June 24—7 a.m.]
892. Following from Tokyo:
“407, June 23, 9 p.m. Your 888, June 22, 6 p.m., return of American doctors and nurses to stations in the Yangtze Valley.
- 1.
- This matter was taken up again today with the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office supplied us with a list prepared in Nanking as of June 10 setting forth the applications of American citizens desiring to return to places under Japanese occupation along the Yangtze. There are included in the list the names of 26 American missionaries whose applications have been approved, and of these, 2 are connected with mission hospitals. In addition the application of Dr. G. S. Trew to return to Nanking has been approved. The Foreign Office states that all applications of American missionaries, doctors, and nurses received as of June 10 have been approved, and that it believes that applications received subsequent to June 10 will receive similar favorable consideration.
- 2.
- We believe that the Foreign Office here is actively interesting itself in this matter.
Please repeat to Department as our 407, June 23, 8 p.m. and to Hankow. Grew.”
Lockhart