Office of the Historian

793.94/10146a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the United Kingdom (Johnson)

Washington, September 20, 1937—11 a.m.

394. Please inquire and report urgently any information you can obtain from Foreign Office as to what the British Government proposes to do in respect to notice of Japanese Admiral relating to bombing of Nanking on and after 21st instant.31

Moore
  1. See telegram No. 728, September 19, 1 p.m., from the Consul General at Shanghai, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 499.↩