Office of the Historian

394.1153 Smith Company, Werner G./18: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart)

Washington, June 29, 1938—4 p.m.

408. Following for Tokyo:

“220 June 29, 4 p.m. Your 391, June 20, 4 p.m.,95 and Nanking’s 127, June 27, 4 p.m.96 (which Shanghai has been requested to repeat to you) in regard to wood oil of Werner G. Smith.

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The Department desires that, in such manner as you deem appropriate, you ask the Foreign Office whether any reports of the investigation promised have been received and express your Government’s increasing concern over the continued delay in the release of the wood oil.”

Please repeat to Tokyo Nanking’s 127, June 27, 4 p.m., and inform Nanking of action taken.

Hull
  1. See telegram No. 873, June 20, 7 p.m., from the Consul General at Shanghai, p. 367.↩
  2. Not printed.↩