Office of the Historian

793.94/16224: Telegram

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

Washington, October 14, 1940—6 p.m.

211. Your 387, October 14, 6 p.m. Please repeat urgently to Tokyo Kunming’s October 13, 7 p.m.,40 with the suggestion, as from the Department, that the Embassy bring immediately to the attention of the Foreign Office this endangering of the American Consulate and its personnel at Kunming and request that prompt and effective steps be taken by the Japanese Government to prevent any possibility of a recurrence.41

Sent to Hong Kong. Repeated to Chungking and Peiping. Hong Kong notify Kunming.

Hull
  1. See telegram No. 387, supra.↩
  2. For Japanese assurance of nonrepetition of bombing of Consulate, see telegram No. 1000, October 16, 5 p.m., from the Ambassador in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, Vol. i, p. 698.↩