893.102 Kulangsu/284: Telegram
The Consul at Amoy (MacVitty) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:28 p.m.]
With reference to my telegram January 16, 10 a.m. After protests on my part to the Japanese Consul General with respect to the Japanese Navy’s restrictions on the movement of junks belonging to the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and the International Relief Committee, Mr. Uchida has informed me that all restriction on traffic between Kulangsu and the mainland will be withdrawn today.
The Municipal Council has appointed a committee of rate payers to consider Japanese demands for increased police representation and the committee’s recommendations will be prepared at the annual rate payers meeting in February. The action of Mr. Uchida in presenting demands at a time when the Japanese Navy was practically blockading traffic to and from the mainland was so similar to conditions at the beginning of the Kulangsu incident73 that these demands met with great resentment on the part of the Municipal Council and third power nationals residing in the Settlement.
Sent to Peiping, repeated to Chungking, Shanghai. Peiping please transmit to Tokyo.