394.1123 Scovel, Frederick G./10: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, June 9, 1938—5
p.m.
[Received June 9—7:21 a.m.]
[Received June 9—7:21 a.m.]
366. Our 363, June 7, 7 p.m.48 Peiping’s June 8, 4 p.m.—attack on Scovel.49
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- I called on the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs this morning and expressed myself strongly on this case. I left with him a note. The Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs said that the military authorities took a serious view of the matter and that as a result of representations made by our representatives in Peiping and Tsingtao those authorities were making a careful investigation.
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- Later this morning the Foreign Office informed us that the Japanese Consul General at Tsinan had telegraphed that he had obtained permission from the Japanese military authorities for an American member of the faculty of Tsilu University at Tsinanfu to visit Tsining to inquire into the circumstances of the reported attack. This American (his name appears to be either Ludgren or Green) was to have left Tsinanfu yesterday for Tsining.
Repeated to Peiping for Hankow.
Grew