393.1115/796: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
236. Your 636, September 10, 5 p.m., in regard to train from Hankow to Canton to evacuate foreigners and Shanghai’s 693, September 13, noon.
Today the Counselor of the Japanese Embassy in conversation with an officer of the Department stated that the Japanese Embassy had last night received a telegram from Tokyo stating that, if arrangements [Page 326] could be made for a train carrying exclusively American and other foreign refugees from Hankow to Canton, the Japanese Government would be willing to undertake not to bomb the train or the tracks. The Counselor stated further that the Japanese Government desired to be notified of the date and hour on which the train would leave Hankow and that his Government also desired that the train be clearly marked.
Repeated to Tokyo.