693.002/868: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Japan (Dooman)
Washington, June 6,
1939—6 p.m.
153. Your 258, June 3, noon, and Shanghai’s 462, June 5, noon, Hankow Customs. The Department desires that, in your discretion, after consultation with your British and French colleagues, you make an approach to the Japanese Foreign Office along the general lines authorized in the Department’s 392, November 18, 1938, 8 p.m.,82 in regard to the seizure by the Japanese of control of the Chinese Maritime Customs at Canton.
Repeated to Hankow, Chungking, and Peiping.
Hull