893.102S/1925: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, October 24, 1939—11
a.m.
[Received October 24—7:30 a.m.]
[Received October 24—7:30 a.m.]
935. Chairman of Municipal Council informs me that he visited the Chinese Mayor yesterday afternoon accompanied by the Senior Consul and the Japanese Consul General and that conversations will be reopened with a view to seeking a settlement of the outside roads problem, the Mayor requesting the Chairman to submit several alternative proposals for consideration.
Repeated to Chungking and Peiping, code text by air mail to Tokyo.
Gauss