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793.94/13171: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Hankow, June 8, 1938—3 p.m.
[Received June 8—2:40 p.m.]

278. My 33, December 13, 4 p.m.,43 and Department’s 22, December 21, 7 p.m.44 In view of indiscriminate bombing45 which is occurring at Canton and in view of recent threats that similar bombing is to take place at Hankow, I respectfully urge that the Department consider advisability of [the] Embassy at Tokyo once more reminding Japanese Government of location of American property and concentration of Americans and other foreigners in area described in my telegram above referred to.

Sent to Peiping, Shanghai, Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo.

Johnson
  1. Foreign Relations, 1937, vol. iv, p. 401.↩
  2. Not printed.↩
  3. See also vol. iii, pp. 613–626, passim, and Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 595.↩