The Archive · 1936

U.S. Accepts Japan's Apology

Washington, June 30.

'The Department of State announced to-day that the American Embassy at Peiping had received a satisfactory reply from the Japanese Embassy regarding the Fecent incident involving Capt. Henry S. Jernigan, of the Military Attaché's office' there. Capt. Jernigan is said to have been threatened with " bayonet wielded by a Japanese soldier during a military ceremony on the glacis Peiping, and ordered to move fon, The American Embassy, without making a formal protest, called attention to this incident and a similar one concerning an American woman. Details of the Japanese answer were not Fevealed-—United Press,

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