393.112/42: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 11—8:15 a.m.]
713. Reference is made to Department’s telegram No. 158, August 9, 8 p.m., final paragraph, regarding anti-American agitation at Kaifeng and elsewhere in North China. Inasmuch as the area mentioned is under the control of the Japanese North China command I believe there would be no value in making representations to the Japanese authorities here who would merely refer them to the Japanese authorities in North China.
There have as yet been no indications of anti-American agitation in the Shanghai Consular District but I am watching the situation closely and will make appropriate representations at the first sign of any such agitation.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping and Hankow. Code text by air mail to Tokyo.