AMERICA’S STIFFLY-WORDED NOTE TO JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 7

AMERICA’S STIFFLY-WORDED NOTE TO JAPAN

Complete Indemnification Requested UNIQUE APPEAL BY PRESIDENT TO EMPEROR Sinking Of Ships In Yangtze-kiang By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 15, 9 p.m.) New York, December 15. The “New York Herald-Tribune,” in a leading article, lays stri on President Roosevelt’s unique appeal to the Japanese Emperor, fo lowing the sinking of the American vessels in the Yangtze-kian; “President Roosevelt has come perilously close to asking, who or wlv the supreme and responsible authority in Japan really is . the pape says “When the army runs away in China with the bit in its tee ' it is probably that the Emperor could say .‘Halt and it would ha t But it is possible that it would not. If it did not, how much divin.t' would be left the little man behind the high walls of lokios Impend. Palace Supplementing the direct representations by President Roosevelt to the Emperor, the State Department has sent a stiff y-worded Note to the Japanese Foreign Office. It referred to the shock caused by the bombing of vessels in the Yantze-kiang by uncontested and inCOnt T t heNote h o t utlines reiterated Japanese assurances that there would be no repetition of violation of American rights, which nevertheless continues? and concludes: “Under these circumstances, the United States requests and expects a formally-recorded expression of regret and an undertaking of complete and comprehensive indemnification. The Note asks for an assurance that definite and specific steps will be taken to ensure that hereafter the interests and property of the American nation in China will not be subjected to attack by Japanese forces or to unlawful interference by any Japanese authority or ioices whatsoever.