Office of the Historian

698.002/1007: Telegram

The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, March 24, 1940—3 p.m.
[Received March 28—1:10 a.m.]

245. Chungking’s 134, March 19, 10 a.m., and previous. Inspector General in letter dated yesterday informed me that he has been authorized by telegram from Minister of Finance at Chungking to act at his discretion in regard to resumption of customs activities at Nanking and Chinkiang when the Yangtze is reopened to foreign trade.

Repeated to Peiping and Chungking. Code text by air mail to Tokyo.

Butrick