Office of the Historian

793.94/9589: Telegram

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

Tokyo, August 23, 1937—10 a.m.
[Received August 22—10:49 p.m. ]

295. Department’s 158, August 21, 10 p.m.

1.
Message received late Sunday evening. Endeavors to establish contact with my four colleagues failed. Owing to urgency of message this Embassy communicated it informally to the Foreign Office immediately. This was not done in the form of representations but merely the communication of advance information pending associated action.
2.
I shall in due course report whether the other four representatives act.

Repeated to Shanghai and [for?] relay to Nanking.

Grew