793.94/13254: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 18—4 a.m.]
857. Following from Tokyo:
“June 17, 11 a.m. Your May 17, 1 p.m., Foochow’s May 13, 7 a.m., Tsangchienshan safety zone. Foreign Office has just informed us that our request that Tsangchienshan should be regarded as a temporary safety zone has been transmitted to the proper Japanese military and naval authorities. The note concludes as follows:
‘At the same time that the contents of the memorandum were transmitted, it was urgently requested, upon the condition that the Chinese Army does not utilize or take advantage of Tsangchienshan or its environs in a military sense, that orders be sent to the various military authorities at the front to recognize that area as a temporary safety zone in the event hostilities spread to the district around Foochow.’
Please repeat to Johnson, Foochow and to the Department as our number 386, June 17, 11 a.m. Grew.”