Office of the Historian

893.822/6: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, October 1, 1937—5 p.m.
[Received October 1—8:08 a.m.]

440. Our 427, September 28, 11 a.m.,22 China coast lighthouses. The Foreign Office today replying [replied?] orally to the effect that the Japanese Navy has no intention of interfering with Chinese coastal lights, that it has not molested Chinese lighthouse supply ships, and that it is exercising utmost caution to avoid interference with coastal lights.

Repeated to Shanghai.

Grew
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