393.115/643: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
Washington, May 23, 1939—6
p.m.
183. Your 396, May 17, 2 p.m. It is suggested that acknowledgments of communications from Japanese Consul General to which you refer be deferred pending receipt of such instructions as the Department may send you upon the receipt by it of the copies which you are forwarding.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Hankow.
Hull