393.115 Ida Kahn Women’s Hospital/2: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
256. Reference Department’s 240, September 29, 12 p.m.87 The Department has received the following telegram from Hankow:
“Information just received that on September 24 during Japanese air raid Nanchang four bombs landed in and near compound Ida Kahn Women and Children’s Hospital belonging to Women’s Foreign Mission Society of Methodist Episcopal Church, Nanchang. Building not directly hit but so shaken that interior wrecked and building abandoned by hospital staff.”
The Department suggests that you make appropriate representations to the Japanese Government in regard to the bombing under reference.