394.1153 Smith Company, Werner G./77: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
Washington, December 6, 1938—5
p.m.
640. Your 1423, November 18, 7 p.m., wood oil. Werner G. Smith authorizes acceptance of Japanese offer to pay for the remaining part of the shipment consisting of approximately 120 short tons without any further effort to obtain payment for the entire original shipment, and expresses the wish that settlement be made accordingly.
Repeated to Chungking and Hankow.
Welles