393.115 Radio Corporation of America/1½: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 25—6 a.m.]
I have been informed by local representative of Radio Corporation of America that he has received information from an American source, undivulged, which he considers reliable, that the Japanese intend to occupy the radio transmitting station at Chenju, 7 miles from Shanghai, at 8 o’clock tonight. He states that the Radio Corporation of America has a substantial financial interest in this station and he desires all steps to be taken which will prevent the station being closed. I have told him that in the event he secured confirmation of this intention I will inform the Japanese Consul General of the American interest in the plant and endeavor to ascertain the intentions of the Japanese there [military?].
Repeated to the Legation.