811.30 Asiatic Fleet/469: Telegram
The First Secretary of Embassy in China ( Salisbury ) to the Secretary of State
Peiping
, July 28,
1938—3 p.m.
[Received July 28—7 a.m.]
[Received July 28—7 a.m.]
472. Embassy’s 466, July 26 [27], 9 a.m. Following from Chefoo:
“July 27, 10 p.m. Your July 27, 9 p.m. [a.m.] Commander-in-Chief of Asiatic Fleet authorized terms of settlement and asked me to settle incident. Full report mailed yesterday.17 In future Embassy will be notified of such incidents immediately and its instructions awaited. Sorry I did not understand Embassy wanted this.”
Chefoo is being instructed to mail to Tokyo for record copy of report mentioned above.
Salisbury
- Not printed.↩