394.1153 Smith Company, Werner G./71: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
616. Your 1356, October 21, 3 p.m., and Hankow’s October 24, 1 a.m.,42 wood oil. Under date of November 10, 1938, the Werner G. Smith Company informed the Department that it would like to have the American authorities make one more effort to reach an agreement with the Japanese authorities for the payment by them for the entire original shipment consisting of approximately 240 long tons. Failing such an agreement the Werner G. Smith Company authorizes settlement upon the basis of payment by the Japanese for the remaining part of the shipment consisting approximately of 120 short tons and the waiver by the company of any further claim by it for payment for the missing part of the original shipment.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, Nanking and Hankow.
- Latter not printed.↩