Office of the Historian

394.115 Panay/151: Telegram

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

Tokyo, December 19, 1937—1 p.m.
[Received December 19—2:22 a.m.]

657. We asked Yoshizawa this morning when replies to our signed note of December 1489 and aide-mémoire of December 1790 would be [Page 512] made. He replied that the charge of Japanese machine-gunning of the Panay having been made, the Japanese Government must first ascertain the facts. He confirmed that an officer of the General Staff had left for Shanghai to investigate.

Grew
  1. See telegram No. 631, December 14, 9 p.m., Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 526.↩
  2. See telegram No. 647, December 17, 1 p.m., ibid., p. 528.↩