793.94/11809: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, December 26, 1937—10
a.m.
[Received December 26—7:40 a.m.]
[Received December 26—7:40 a.m.]
682. Our 672, December 23, 4 p.m.
- 1.
- My British colleague, when sending me a copy of his informal note
to the Foreign Office on the Hankow safety area, informs me that he
has received further instructions, as follows:
- [“](a) To ask the Japanese Government to consider Killing as a place of refuge and to take no action which might endanger the safety of British and other foreign nationals;
- (b) To inform the Japanese Government that we look to them to give prior warning in the event of any area on the Yangtze becoming a danger area and to indicate to us the zones in which our nationals and shipping could be concentrated under a guarantee of safety. I am at the same time to remind the Japanese Government that we claim absolute freedom for our ships to move and trade freely on the river.”
- 2.
- Craigie inquires whether I have information or instructions which would enable me to make representations on the above lines.
Repeated to Shanghai for relay to Johnson.
Grew