611.939/210: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart), at Peiping
245. Please send to Tokyo by air mail copies of Department’s 11, October 26, 7 p.m., to Swatow (last substantive paragraph should be paraphrased), Swatow’s 62, October 31, noon, and Shanghai’s 959, October 31, 6 p.m., together with following comment duly paraphrased as from Department:
The Department is asking Peiping to send you copies of telegrams in regard to linen shipments from Swatow in order that you may have the information in regard to the heavy financial exactions made in connection with these shipments. The Department believes that this information may be of value to you for possible use at some opportune time in connection with your conversations with Japanese officials in regard to general and specific questions of Japanese interference with legitimate American trade in China.
Sent to Peiping.