393.115 Carolina Leaf Tobacco Company/3: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lochhart)
414. Your 917, June 28, 2 p.m.1 Please transmit the following to Tokyo, together with any addition[al] information you may have obtained since sending your 872, June 20, 6 p.m.:
“224. June 30, noon. Your 418, June 28, 3 p.m.,1 in regard to the Carolina Leaf Tobacco Company case. The Department desires that you bring this case to the attention of the Foreign Office in such manner as you may consider most likely to prove effective. The Department suggests that you point out the manifest lack of any logical basis for the position taken by the Japanese Consul General in his reply to our Consul General’s representations, and request that steps be taken by the competent authorities as soon as possible to effect a return of the tobacco to the American company or to compensate the company in full for the loss thereof.”