Office of the Historian

793.94/9435: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)

Washington, August 19, 1937—5 p.m.

162. Your 448 of August 16, 3 p.m., and Tokyo’s 278 of August 18, 5 p.m.61 In view of large number of Americans at Kuling and of Japanese Navy Department’s instruction to Japanese naval forces to refrain from bombing Kuling unless it is used as a base for Chinese military operations, please ask Chinese authorities to refrain from military operations which would be likely to bring hostilities into the neighborhood of Kuling.

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