393.1163M56/269
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 16.]
Sir: With reference to despatch No. 2896 under date of October 17, 1940, from the Embassy at Peiping,51 regarding the latest bombing by Japanese planes of property of the Methodist Episcopal Mission at Chungking which took place on October 16, 1940, and to other correspondence on this case, I have the honor to transmit herewith for the Department’s information and records a copy of the Embassy’s note No. 1674 of November 6, 1940,51 making representations to the Imperial Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this matter, protesting emphatically regarding the repeated attacks upon the property of this mission and requesting that peremptory instructions be issued to the Japanese forces in China to put an end to such attacks.
Respectfully yours,