793.94/13962: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—8:30 a.m.]
623. Our 577, September 5, 3 p.m., Hankow safety zone. The British Ambassador has informed the Foreign Office that the British Government in taking note of the conditions under which the Japanese forces will refrain from attacking the safety zone is “unable to accept any responsibility towards either party to the present hostilities in respect of any action or undertaking of the other party” and that it reserves all rights “in the event of any injury or damage being suffered by British subjects or British property in or near Hankow as the result of military operations by the Japanese armed forces”.
The French Ambassador has made to the Foreign Office a substantially similar communication.