Office of the Historian

394.112/19: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Hankow, July 29, 1938—6 p.m.
[Received July 29—8:15 a.m.]

385. Department’s 221, July 28, 7 p.m.36 and Chefoo’s July 28, 11 a.m. I have sent the following instructions to Chefoo:

“July 29, 6 p.m. Your July 27, 9 p.m. and July 28, 11 a.m. You are authorized to accept expression of regret as conveyed to you and consider incident closed. I am glad to observe that you are able to settle these matters locally.

Sent to Chefoo, repeated to Peiping and Shanghai, Peiping please repeat to Tokyo.”

I am separately instructing Peiping and Chefoo along the lines of Department’s 220, July 28, 6 p.m.37

Johnson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Ante, p. 162.↩