Office of the Historian

693.116/175: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, November 8, 1938—5 p.m.
[Received November 8—10:45 a.m.]

666. Tientsin’s 208 [202], November 2, 11 a.m.25 A secretary of the Japanese Embassy today informed this Embassy that the original issuance of permits by the Superintendent of Customs was a mistake, but that the permits already issued would not be rescinded; however, no further permits would be issued to those companies (such as Amasia and Frazar) which have heretofore failed to obtain permits for the import of short wave sets ordered before the imposition of the embargo.

Repeated to Tientsin. By mail to Tokyo.

Lockhart
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