Parallel Action Likely from Powers Washington, Feb. 25.
Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, revealed here to-day that the United States had officially notified Japan that American nationals are entitled to live in China and that the United States will hold Japan strictly accountable for any injury to Americans in China or damage to their property resulting from Japanese military operations.
Mr. Hull revealed that the State Department had instructed the Arerican Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Joseph Grew, to inform the Japenese Foreign Office that warnings by the Japanese military authorities in China advising Americans tu seek safety outside zones of military operations would in no wise excuse or lessen Japan's responsibility for any injury to Americans or damage to their property in China. The notification was given Japan om February 18, Mr. Hull revealed.
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