893.102S/1928: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 2—4:25 a.m.]
568. Embassy’s 501, October 4, 5 p.m.,96 extra-Settlement roads area at Shanghai. We have received from the Foreign Office a note verbale referring to our representations made on October 4 and stating as follows:
“There are differences of opinion with regard to the various points set forth in those representations. However, with deep concern for a just settlement of this issue, instructions have already been sent to the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai to use his good offices whenever required in the negotiations on this question between the appropriate authorities of the Shanghai Municipal Government and the officials of the Municipal Council of the International Settlement at Shanghai.”
Repeated to Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Chungking, Peiping.
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