Office of the Historian

611.939/300: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Swatow (Yearns)

Washington, April 24, 1940—noon.

7. Your 10, April 19, noon.77

1.
Please report circumstances or details of any arrangement with shippers under which Mitsui Bussan Kaisha was in position to assess an 11 percent ad valorem “duty” on a shipment of American-owned cargo to Swatow.
2.
The Embassy at Peiping is requested to send to Tokyo a copy of this telegram and of Swatow’s telegram under reference.

Sent to Swatow. Repeated to Peiping.

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