893.24/1092: Telegram
The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 27—7 a.m.]
87. Early this morning the Japanese military authorities took possession of all bonded warehouses at Hanoi and began to take away certain transit cargo stored therein. No check of the amount and the nature of the transit cargoes so seized can be made until the Japanese military authorities finish their operations but it is known that they have seized 28 trucks and 13 tractors belonging to the United States Far Eastern Trading Corporation—part of the Universal Trading Corporation.
Sent to Cavite for repetition to the Department, Chungking, Peiping, Hong Kong, Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo.