Office of the Historian

793.94/3443: Telegram

The Consul General at Nanking (Peck) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, January 8, 1932—2 p.m.
[Received January 8—5:40 a.m.]

4. Your No. 2, January 7, noon.

[1.]
I delivered the note to the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs at 1 p.m. After reading it he said he would reply in due course.
2.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me that the Chinese Government has determined upon the following steps which will be taken “almost immediately”: (1st) to break off diplomatic relations with Japan; (2d), to address the League of Nations invoking against Japan the economic sanctions provided for in article 16 of the Covenant. In reply to a question he added that the second step would necessarily involve an earlier meeting of the League Council.

Repeated to Legation.

Peck