893.05/185: Telegram

The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State

1012. My 1010, November 19, 7 p.m., paragraph 3. Following from American Consul at Nanking:

“November 19, 8 p.m. Japanese Consul General at Shanghai has just informed me that he had a conversation today with Minister for Foreign Affairs urging latter to permit Japanese representatives to participate in Provisional Court negotiations but that Wang declined to do so.”

MacMurray