861.00/7001: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan ( Bell ) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 9—2:27 p.m.]
288. My May 25, 4 p.m.,45 and June 4, 6 p.m. The War Office yesterday issued statement reporting that the 100 Japanese residents who survived the Nikolaevsk massacre in March were apparently [Page 514] slaughtered about May 25th. Public feeling is running high and demanding punitive measures against Partisans. There are also suggestions in the press that northern Sakhalin should be occupied as a guarantee for reparation to be exacted after a Russian government, which can be dealt with, is established.
- Not found in Department files.↩