701.0093/236: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 20—8 a.m.]
321. Peiping’s 305, May 18, 4 p.m., violation of the established rights of the Legation quarter. We made today to the Foreign Office oral representations on the basis of Peiping’s note to the Japanese Embassy, urging that the Japanese military be directed to respect Legation quarter rights. According to the Foreign Office, the visitors referred to are Prince Kanin the younger and Prince Chichibu and they have already left Peiping. The Foreign Office stated that it [Page 328] would take up the matter at once with the War Office with a view to appropriate instructions being sent to the military authorities in Peiping.
Repeated to Peiping for Hankow.