811.7393C73/97
The Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the American Embassy in China66
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the American Embassy and has the honor to state that it has received the following communication from the Ministry of Communications:
“According to a confidential report, the bogus regime at Nanking has detailed officers to proceed to Shanghai to conduct negotiations with the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Ltd., the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Ltd., and the Commercial Pacific Cable Company, requesting the cancellation of their agreements with the Central Government and the conclusion of other agreements with the bogus regime, failing which the Japanese will compel them to discontinue operation beginning next year. Please take note of the matter and request those concerned to take steps to stop such activity.”
If the request of the Japanese and of the bogus regime in connection with the above Companies is permitted to materialize, it will be obviously contrary to the policies of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark. Apart from addressing separate communications to the British Embassy and to the Danish Legation in China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in inditing this third person note, has the honor to request that the American Embassy take note of the matter and instruct the Commercial Pacific Cable Company to reject the request of the Japanese and of the bogus regime. A reply is also requested.
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- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Embassy in China without covering despatch; received about March 2, 1939.↩