893.102 Tientsin/632: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
119. Tientsin’s 54, April 15, noon, and 55, April 17, 4 p.m.19 Please make an approach to the Japanese Foreign Office in such manner as you may deem appropriate but without mention of the Tientsin Chamber of Commerce and point out emphatically that the long-continued and unlawful interference by Japanese armed forces and their agencies with the movement of American citizens and of American-owned [Page 852] merchandise at Tientsin has been the subject of repeated conversations between American and Japanese officials but without cessation of such interference. The Department suggests that you say that it seems obvious that further instruction from Tokyo to the Japanese armed forces at Tientsin will be required to effect an improvement in the situation and that you ask that such instruction be sent.
Sent to Tokyo via Peiping. Repeated to Chungking and Tientsin.
- Neither printed.↩