393.115 Standard Vacuum Oil Company/82: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
656. Your 1491, December 22, 1 p.m., in regard to movement of Standard Vacuum Oil Company’s Meiyun from Kiukiang to Shanghai for overhaul. The Department likewise is not favorably disposed toward the proposed method of handling the matter. However, it [Page 209] feels that, in view of the circumstances, you should inform the company that, whereas the American authorities are prepared to continue their endeavors to obtain the removal of the Japanese restrictions upon the movement of the vessel, you feel that the decision in this matter should be reached by the company independently of any advice from you and that the Consulate General and other agencies of this Government can assume no responsibility in regard to any arrangement which may be entered into relating to the charter contract.
Repeated to Peiping and Hankow. Shanghai repeat to Tokyo.