393.1123 Nyhus, Phoebe/83: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:18 p.m.]
282. Reference my telegram No. 1402, November 10, noon,50 regarding Nyhus case at Tungpeh. Japanese Consul General called on me last evening and, after [mentioning?] the kind gesture of the American Government in sending home to Japan on an American warship the remains of former Ambassador Saito, said that the Japanese Government had instructed him to discuss the Nyhus case with me in pursuance of the statement made at the time that his Government was prepared to pay “consolation money” in settlement of the case. He [Page 316] made no definite offer or proposal and could not even tell me whether the Japanese forces had occupied Tungpeh and investigated the case as they had proposed to do. I told the Japanese Consul General that I was not informed what “claim” the American Government had formulated in respect of the Tungpeh case and was not therefore in a position or authorized to discuss a settlement with him but that I would report to the Department and to the Ambassador at Tokyo.
Repeated to Tokyo, Chungking and Peiping. By mail to Hankow.