393.0015/108: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
290. Reference Hankow’s 192, August 7, 3 p.m.,37 and your 702, August 8, 5 p.m., in regard to travel of Americans on the Yangtze. [Page 366] The Department approves in general the suggestion which you made to Rear Admiral Glassford as reported in the last substantive paragraph of your telegram under reference but desires that you suggest also to Admiral Glassford that in the Department’s opinion it would be advisable to make clear to the Japanese authorities that the question of our right to transport American nationals on our naval vessels in China is not admissible as a subject for negotiation or discussion with agencies of any other government.
The Department desires that you and Hankow keep the Department fully and promptly informed of any developments in the foregoing matter.
Sent to Shanghai. Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Hankow.
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