793.94/10275: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—10:15 a.m.]
248. The Soviet press published today the following notes:
- 1.
- A note from the Chinese Embassy in Moscow to the Peoples Commissariat for Foreign Affairs dated September 25, in which after referring to the bombardments of Shanghai, Nanking and Canton [it] states that the Embassy according to instructions of the Government of the Chinese Republic calls “the attention of the Soviet Government to the serious consequences ensuing from the barbarous nature of the Japanese military action in China which affects entire mankind, and to request that the Soviet Government take such measures which would facilitate the rapid cessation of such ruthless and inhuman action”.
- 2.
- A note from the Soviet Ambassador in Tokyo to the Japanese
Minister for Foreign Affairs dated September 26 which states
in part as follows:
“Considering the actions of the Japanese military authorities with regard to Nanking and the unlawful demand presented by them regarding the evacuation from Nanking of the Embassy of the U.S.S.R. as unlawful and contrary to the universally recognized principles of international law, the Soviet Government declares its resolute protest against these actions of the Japanese military forces which are unprecedented in the history of international relations and reiterates that the Embassy of the U.S.S.R. in China has been given instructions to continue to remain at its post and warns the Japanese Government that it will consider it fully responsible for all the consequences from these unlawful actions.”
- 3.
- The Soviet press contains no comment thus far with respect to these notes.