393.115/480: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 5—7 a.m.]
478. [Following to Shanghai:] Your October 3, 3 p.m.4 So far as my information goes the portions of Chekiang under Chinese control are subject to attack by Japanese forces and if this is so I do not think it unreasonable that the Ningpo Garrison Headquarters reserve the right to consider on its merits each application by an American citizen to travel or reside in such portions of Chekiang province. I shall be glad to take up with the Chinese Foreign Office any case or category of cases in which the Chinese authorities place unreasonable obstacles in the way of American citizens applying for travel visas in Chekiang. Your telegram and this reply have been sent to Shanghai [the Department].
- See telegram No. 479, October 5, noon, supra.↩