394.115 Panay/251
The Navy Department to the Department of State
Washington [undated].
[Received January 3, 1938.]
[Received January 3, 1938.]
A confidential and thoroughly reliable source of information discloses that the Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo informed Admiral Hasegawa of the satisfactory settlement of the Panay affair, and directed him to take especial precautions in the future. Furthermore, Admiral Hasegawa was notified by the same authority that, unless American lives and property in China were respected, friendly relations with the United States could not be relied upon. On December 26th Admiral Hasegawa issued these instructions to his command.