393.115/482: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
Washington, October 7, 1938—5
p.m.
262. Peiping’s 601, October 4, 4 p.m., in regard to identification of American properties in certain north China areas. The Department offers for your consideration the suggestion that the Americans responsible for American properties in the areas indicated in the Japanese communication might well be advised to keep their property markers from becoming so weather-worn as to be indistinct.
Welles