8621.01/274a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington
, September
5, 1933—5 p.m.
76. Associated press telegram from Tokyo under date September 1st reports that the Japanese Navy Office issued a statement to vernacular [Page 753] newspapers in regard to Japanese harbor works in the Mandated Pacific Islands part of which read “Those islands are Japanese territory”. Telegraph whether this translation is accurate and send full Japanese text by pouch.
Hull