793.94/10395: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, October 4, 1937—2
p.m.
[Received October 4—6:50 a.m.]
[Received October 4—6:50 a.m.]
444. Department’s 245, October 2, 3 p.m.—use of International Settlement Shanghai as military base.
- 1.
- I called today on the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and made oral representations leaving with him an aide-mémoire80 embodying all of the points in paragraph number 4 of the Department’s telegram.
- 2.
- The Vice Minister’s only comment was that the Chinese forces are endangering Japanese lives and property in the International Settlement by fire from Pootung and Chapei and that the Japanese have landed a very small number of troops in the Settlement, their principal forces having been disembarked elsewhere. The Foreign Office will report [reply?] to our representations in due course.
- 3.
- My British colleague will make similar representations to the Vice Minister this afternoon as he is instructed to act on the same lines as myself.
Repeated to Shanghai.
Grew