893.102s/2092: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 2—9:45 a.m.]
583. I called on the French Consul General this morning. He stated that the French Concession police have reached an oral agreement with the Japanese gendarmerie in regard to the suppression of terrorism in the French Concession, including joint search on prior notification. He said that Japanese armed trucks would be allowed to pass along the water front as heretofore but would not be so closely supervised as the French did not have sufficient forces for that purpose at present. He said these measures did not exceed the practice in the International Settlement, which is true. He said that their present attitude is to resist by force any attempt to take over the French Concession.
Sent to the Department, repeated to Chungking, Peiping. Code text by air mail to Tokyo.