893.102S/1926a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
418. Your 939, October 24, 2 p.m.95 In view of the inaccurate publicity which a statement made by the Secretary on October 20 in regard to certain phases of the situation at Shanghai has apparently been given, there is quoted below the substance of the Secretary’s statement as it appeared in Radio Bulletin No. 249 of that date:
“A correspondent referred to press reports from Shanghai regarding new incidents in the International Settlement and a dispute between local police and police assigned to duties outside the Settlement. Asked to comment, the Secretary answered that our local officials undertook to attend to local incidents of this sort, and to thresh them [Page 100] out, doing whatever was feasible and advisable to reach a settlement; and that he assumed this course would probably be followed in the present instance.”
Sent to Shanghai. Repeated to Peiping and Tientsin.
- Not printed.↩