Office of the Historian

393.1163AM33/61: Telegram

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

Tokyo, February 26, 1938—7 p.m.
[Received February 26—8:40 a.m.]

136. Our 116, February 18, 7 p.m.,70 Southern Baptist Mission at Chengchow and our 128, February 24, noon,70 Lutheran Mission at Ichang.

The Foreign Office has telephoned that the Japanese military authorities state that the markings on the buildings were not sufficient to distinguish the latter as American property and request that all establishments within zone of military operations owned by Americans bear more conspicuous markings as requested by the Foreign Office in its notes of February 15 and 1771 (our 108, February 16, 7 p.m. and 113, February 17, 7 p.m.72).

We have made no comment.

Repeated to Peiping for relay to Hankow and Shanghai.

Grew
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  3. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, Vol. i, pp. 583 and 585, respectively.↩
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