393.115/669: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
Washington, June 21, 1939—5
p.m.
111. Shanghai’s unnumbered telegram, June 6, noon, in regard to a communication addressed June 5 to you by the Counselor of the Japanese Embassy which contained a statement of the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese China Sea Fleet on the subject of the aerial bombing of American properties.
The Department assumes that you are causing the pertinent allegations in the statement to be investigated in so far as may be practicable.
Hull