Office of the Historian

393.1115/3710: Telegram

The Consul General at Hong Kong (Southard) to the Secretary of State

Hong Kong, October 22, 1938—9 p.m.
[Received October 22—5 a.m.]

Referring to your telegram of October 19, 10 [11] a.m.25 about American-born Chinese on Shameen. I have talked with the British Ambassador who asks me to tell you that he is immediately taking the matter up by telegraph and will help all he can but is not in a position to say what the decision may be.

Sent to Chungking, Canton. Repeated to Peiping.

Southard
  1. Not printed.↩