493.11/2055b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
185. The Department desires that you present a note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs reading as follows:
“Acting under instructions, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that my Government reserves all rights on its behalf and on behalf of American nationals in respect of damages to or loss of American property or on account of death or injuries sustained by American nationals as a result of the activities of Chinese armed forces in the course of or incident to military operations now in progress in China.”
Similar instruction to Tokyo.81
- See note of August 27 from the Ambassador in Japan to the Japanese Foreign Minister, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 490.↩