Office of the Historian

393.1115/989: Telegram

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

Washington, September 24, 1937—6 p.m.

227. Your 408, September 24, 6 p.m.; 394, September 20, 7 p.m.;64 and Department’s 216, September 18, 6 p.m., in regard to Hankow’s evacuation.

Please immediately inform the Japanese Foreign Office that, in the light of Japanese undertaking to refrain from offensive operations against the train and route by which Americans are evacuating from Hankow by train via Canton, this Government finds it extremely difficult to understand reports of Japanese air bombing directed against the Canton railway station; and that this Government again urges the Japanese authorities to exercise every precaution to the end that the lives of Americans withdrawing from Hankow via Canton shall not be endangered by Japanese military action.

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