158.932/264½: Telegram
The Consul at Tsingtao (Sokobin) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 29—7:15 a.m.]
198. The Japanese Consul General under date of September 27 had addressed a communication to this Consulate stating that in order to strengthen cholera preventive measures “an immediately effective measure was adopted and announced on September 27th by the highest commands of the Imperial Navy and Army forces in Tsingtao to the effect that if any person should violate the directions of the Army Navy Joint Cholera Preventative Committee, or the notices or proclamations of this Consulate General or the Mayor of Tsingtao Special Municipality, or verbal instructions based thereon, or if any person should be guilty of unlawful conduct in violation of cholera prevention regulations, the same person shall be severely punished according to military law”.
All persons must bear cholera inoculation certificates which must be presented upon demand or be subjected to inoculation immediately by corps now functioning in streets of Tsingtao.
Repeated by radio to Embassies at Chungking and Peiping and to Shanghai Consulate General.