Office of the Historian

893.20/401: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, January 16, 1933—10 p.m.
[Received January 16—12:55 p.m.]

13. The Foreign Office spokesman today informed the press correspondents that some forty non-commissioned officers on the active list of the American Army had been lent to China by the American Army to take part in the hostilities against Japan. When asked the source of the report Shiratori12 declined to reveal it but said that the information was regarded by the Foreign Office as reliable. I presume that this statement refers to certain American reserve [Page 95] officers who are understood to be acting as aviation instructors in a military school at Hangchow in South China but would be glad to be informed of the facts.

Grew
  1. Toshio Shiratori, director, Bureau of Information and Intelligence, Japanese Foreign Office.↩