Washington, Jan. 31.
Japanese regrets over the Allison incident at Nanking to-day were accepted by the United States as "satisfactory," the Department of State announced here.
Japan yesterday apologized for the incident, stating that adequate steps had been taken to prevent a recurrence of such affairs. The apology followed a protest to the Japanese Foreign Office by Mr. Joseph Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan. The protest was one of the strongest delivered to any foreign Power by ihe United States since America's entry into the Great War and was the second such protest to Japan. in a week.
"The State Department published the text of Mr. Grew's oral representawich revealed the severity of America's attitude. Twice during the past week the American Ambassador has informed the Japanese Foreign Office that the United States doubted the sincerity of Japanese assurances on which the Panay incident of early was settled, Many diplomats here considered significant the speed with which Japan cypressed her regrets to the ited States over the Allison incident. It was taken as another indication of Japan's anxiety over strained American-Japanese relations.
Mr. Allison has been advised that the-commander and twenty enlisted men of the unit to which the offending Japanese sentry was attached had been ordered court-martiallied, the State Department revealed to-day. United Press,
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