740.00116 Pacific War/23
The Secretary of State to the Chinese Ambassador (Hu Shih)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Excellency the Chinese Ambassador and has the honor to refer to the Ambassador’s communication of April 7, 1942 with which there was transmitted, under instructions from his Government, the text of a telegram dated April 6, 1942 received by the Ambassador from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Chungking in regard to the resort to bacteriological warfare by Japanese military forces in China.
Copies of the Ambassador’s communication in question together with copies of its enclosure have been forwarded by the Department of State to the appropriate authorities of the Government of the United States.