393.1163 Am 3/228: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 25—6:20 a.m.]
412. Department’s 225, September 23, 7 p.m.65 My French colleague knows nothing of the date or details of the bombing of the French Catholic Mission at Sienhsien. He has received only a brief [Page 356] telegram from the French Consul in Tientsin stating the bare fact of the bombing and he informs me that representations have been made to the Japanese in Tientsin. He proposes to take no action here in the absence of instructions from his Government.
It is not perfectly clear from the Department’s instruction whether I am desired to take action in the absence of French action here. Assuming that the interests concerned are predominantly French I shall withhold action until either (1) the French Ambassador acts here or (2) the Department directs me to act alone.
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