Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The Far East; The Near East and Africa, Volume IV

393.115 Andersen Meyer and Co./18: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)

Washington, February 24, 1939—7 p.m.

66. Please repeat to Tokyo your 140, February 23, 11 a.m., in regard to Andersen Meyer mill at Kiukiang⁸ and suggest to Tokyo, as from the Department, that the information contained in the first substantive sentence of the telegram under reference be brought to the attention of the Japanese Foreign Office with a request that appropriate attention be given the matter to the end that early arrangements may be made for meeting the desire of Andersen Meyer and Company to station a representative at Kiukiang.

Repeated to Chungking and Hankow.

Hull

8. Not printed; it reported that the Japanese Consulate General at Shanghai had no apparent intention of informing the Foreign Office of this case (393.115 Andersen Meyer and Co./17).