393.1163 Nantungchow/18
Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton)
During the course of a call by Mr. Suma on other subjects (see separate memoranda), I took occasion to hand to him the original of a memorandum of November 2416 on the subject “Damage to the American Mission at Nantungchow.” I told Mr. Suma that I was [Page 384] handing him this memorandum informally in response to the initiative which he had taken on August 25 in bringing up this case. I said that we regarded our action in presenting this statement to him as informal and I suggested that the Japanese authorities might care to work out informally a local settlement. Mr. Suma referred to the way in which an informal settlement had been effected of the damage to American mission property at Tungchow, near Peiping, and said that he thought that they might handle this in the same way. I emphasized again that I was handing him this statement in response to initiative taken by him.
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