811.30 Asiatic Fleet/642: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 16—7:45 a.m.]
1414. Reference my No. 1404, November 10, 2 p.m.,68 navigation of the Yangtze. Japanese Consul General informed me orally yesterday afternoon that the Japanese Navy is willing to facilitate the transit of a tanker as far as Wuhu to carry oil supplies intended exclusively for the use of the United States Navy. As to Kiukiang and Hankow, the Japanese Navy is ready to arrange for the transportation by its own means of such supplies intended exclusively for the use of the United States Navy.
Repeated to Tokyo. To Peiping by mail. Commander-in-Chief informed.
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