Office of the Historian

793.94/10856: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, October 27, 1937—4 p.m.
[Received October 27—8:55 a.m.]

495. Shanghai’s 887, October 24, 7 p.m. Today Dooman read to Yoshizawa the first paragraph of the telegram above cited and urged that the commanders of the Japanese naval and military forces at Shanghai be directed to see to it that lives of foreigners and other noncombatants in the foreign protected areas at Shanghai are not endangered by Japanese gun fire and by the flying of Japanese airplanes carrying bombs over such areas.93 Yoshizawa expressed regret that the actions of the Japanese forces should have made further representations necessary and said that he would at once take up this matter with the appropriate authorities.

Repeated to Shanghai for information of Nanking and Yarnell.

Grew
  1. The British Embassy made similar representations October 28 (793.94/10873).↩