393.115 Ida Kahn Women’s Hospital/3: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 8—6:40 a.m.]
457. Department’s 256, October 7, 7 p.m. On the basis of telegram received from Hankow yesterday the Embassy delivered the following memorandum to the Japanese Government this morning before receipt of Department’s instructions.
“Information has just been received that on September 24 during a Japanese air raid at Nanchang, four bombs landed in and near the compound of the Ida Kahn Women and Children’s Hospital belonging to the Women’s Foreign Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Mission at Nanchang. While the building was apparently not directly hit it was so shaken that the interior was wrecked and the building was abandoned by the hospital staff.
The American Government, adhering to the views which it has previously expressed to the Japanese Government concerning unwarrantable attacks upon humanitarian establishments and noncombatants, protests against an attack which exposed to grave danger the lives of Americans and other noncombatants.”
Repeated to Nanking.