394.115 Panay/170: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 22—5 a.m.]
668. 1. The Foreign Office informs me that the Vice Minister of the Navy, Admiral Yamamoto, desires to call on me tomorrow to inform me of the results of Japanese investigations into the circumstances of the attack on the Panay. He is to be accompanied by Yoshizawa, of the Foreign Office, Lieutenant Commander Taniguchi, who has brought information from Navy Headquarters at Shanghai, and probably Lieutenant Colonel Nishi (see our 655, December 18, 3 p.m.), who is flying back today from Nanking. The Vice Minister has requested that the Counselor and the Naval Attaché of this Embassy also be present at the meeting.
2. It would be helpful to us if we could have by tomorrow morning pertinent portions of the report of findings of the Naval Court of Inquiry.
3. I am repeating this telegram to the Commander in Chief and am requesting him, if he is in a position to supply me with the desired portions of the naval report, to radio Washington urgently as soon as he has communicated it to me.
Repeated to Shanghai for urgent communication to the Commander in Chief.