793.003/902: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 7—7 a.m.]
951. My 902, June 25, noon; my 936, July 1, 3 p.m.; Tokyo’s 416, June 27, 2 p.m.; and 431, June 30, 5 p.m.7
1. In issuing passes recently to American missionaries to proceed to the interior Japanese military authorities provided them (but are not now doing so) with a written statement intended to guard them in their movements and activities. This statement in its original form contained the following.
“As third power nationals residing in Japanese occupied areas are not entitled to enjoy extraterritorial privileges as is the case in Japan, during the period of military occupation, you are requested to abide by all military orders and regulations with regard to living, travel, business, curfew, photography, removing cargo, printing and meetings, other than religious nature, promulgated by the Japanese military in the area.”
In a copy of the statement handed to this office by an American missionary, this paragraph had been amended, according to his statement, by the Japanese military, to read as follows: [Page 394]
“As third power nationals residing in Japanese occupied areas are not entitled to enjoy extraterritorial privileges insofar as Japanese military forces concerned, et cetera, et cetera.”
Repeated to Hankow and Tokyo.
- Nos. 936 and 431 not printed.↩