793.94/15321: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, August 24, 1939—11
a.m.
[Received August 24—1:15 a.m.]
[Received August 24—1:15 a.m.]
766. From a reputable source I learn quite confidentially that 6,000 troops arrived yesterday, but that planned blockade of the International Settlement of Shanghai has been held up under instructions from Tokyo on account of the international situation74 and that the military are disgruntled at these orders.
Gauss
- Apparently a reference to the situation created by the signing of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact on August 23. For the reaction in the Far East, see telegram No. 428, August 23, 7 p.m., from the Chargé in Japan, vol. iii, p. 51, and following correspondence.↩