893.102S/1993: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 19—7:10 a.m.]
81. Following is Embassy’s translation of note dated February 17.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the American Government and has the honor to state that it has received a report to the effect that Cornell Franklin, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council of the International Settlement in Shanghai, signed on February 16 a modus vivendi with Fu Siao-en, the Japanese controlled bogus mayor of Shanghai, in regard to the special policing in the extra-Settlement roads area in the western part of Shanghai.
That the Municipal Council of the International Settlement in Shanghai has gone so far as to sign an agreement with the bogus Shanghai municipal government created under Japanese aggression is regarded by the Chinese Government as improper. Apart from addressing a separate communication to the British Embassy, the Ministry, in inditing this third person note, has the honor to request that the American Embassy take note and effect a prompt rectification of this improper act of the Shanghai Municipal Council, in order to further friendly relations. The favor of a reply is also requested.”
Repeated to Shanghai, Peiping.