Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1942, General; the British Commonwealth; the Far East, Volume I

740.00114 Pacific War/31a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Switzerland ( Huddle )

Washington , March 11, 1942.

649. Please ask the Swiss Government to request from the Japanese Government the expedition of lists of American wounded, sick and dead taken in charge or discovered by Japanese forces, the obligation of furnishing of which is imposed on belligerents by Article 4 of the Red Cross Convention of July 27, 1929.

The Prisoners of War Information Bureau in the War Department has already forwarded to the Central Information Bureau at Geneva all information available to it with regard to Japanese wounded, sick and dead taken in charge or discovered by American forces.

Welles