Office of the Historian

393.1163M56/109: Telegram

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

Washington, December 1, 1938—7 p.m.

403. Chungking’s 565, November 25, 3 p.m., and previous, in regard to repeated bombings of American mission property at Nanchang. The Department leaves to your decision the question whether further representations to the Japanese Government in regard to this matter should be made at this time but inclines definitely to the opinion that such representations would be desirable.

Please report any action you may take in the matter.50

Repeated to Chungking, Shanghai and Hankow.

Welles
  1. The Ambassador in Japan in his telegram No. 767, December 5, 11 a.m., reported the transmission of a note to the Foreign Office dated November 30 (393.1163M56/111).↩