Office of the Historian

394.115 Panay/142: Telegram

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

Tokyo, December 18, 1937—3 p.m.
[Received December 18—2:57 a.m.]

655. Our 652, December 17, 7 p.m. The Military Attaché was informed today at the War Office that the Chief of the American Section of the General Staff has been sent to Shanghai to investigate the report that Japanese Army launches machine gunned the Panay.

Repeated to Shanghai.

Grew