Office of the Historian

393.115/616: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Hankow (Jarvis)

Washington, April 21, 1939—8 p.m.

34. Your 93, April 19, 5 p.m.52 The Department assumes from your telegram that you do not anticipate any physical attempt to prevent departure from Hankow of Americans who have not obtained Japanese “permission”. The Department also assumes that any Americans who may leave Hankow without such “permission” and who may decide to return to Hankow have in mind the practical difficulties that might attend their return landing or sojourn.

Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Shanghai.

Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo.

Hull
  1. Not printed; it reported that Americans were planning to depart aboard American gunboats without Japanese “permission” (393.115/615).↩