394.1141 Singer Sewing Machine Co./12: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 19—9:45 a.m.]
21. My 20, January 19, 3 p.m.24 The Minister for Foreign Affairs sent an official of the Foreign Office to the Embassy this evening to inform me that a full investigation of the facts of the attack on the offices of the Singer Sewing Machine Company had been made and that these facts had been cabled this evening to Ambassador Debuchi. The contention of the Yokohama police is that the strikers had been unexpectedly recruited from Tokyo just before the attack and that in any case only a peaceful demonstration had been expected. The Foreign Office official states that Count Uchida is much concerned over the incident and that the Foreign Office fears that the affair may be interpreted as anti-American in character which he assures me is in no sense the case.
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