Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The Far East, Volume IV

394.1123 Scovel, Frederick G./33: Telegram

The First Secretary of Embassy in China (Salisbury) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, July 13, 1938—5 p.m.
[Received July 13—7 a.m.]

441. Department’s 183, July 9, 4 p.m.,²³ Scovel case. Japanese Embassy states it will soon give information in regard to punishment of the soldier in question. I expressed today to a Secretary of that Embassy the hope that the Japanese military authorities had taken appropriate and adequate steps to prevent assaults on American citizens.

Salisbury

23. Not printed.