The further protest by the United States Government concerning incidents in Nanking, involving an assault/on Mr. John B. Allison, in charge of the U.S. Embassy there, and the terms in which st is reported to have been couched will do nothing to ease the tension which for a time was allayed by the manner in which the Japanese Government responded to the repre-Sentations made in connection with the USS. Panay. Mr. "Allison undoubtedly did report 10 Washington what has been going on in the Chinese capital and it is possible that this aroused some resentment. But it has to be pointed out that he was merely doing his duty. If Chinese women, seeking refuge in American owned build ings in Nanking have been taken out by force by Japanese—and there ig ample evidence of it—then it was undoubtedly Mr. Allison's duty to report it to his government. He would have been derelict had he failed to do so. If in the articular investigation in connection with which this latest incident arose, he did disregard the wishes of the Japanese milliary, it was by no means their duty to take the Iiw in their own' hands, especially when the proper course would have been to make proper representations to Mr. Allison's superiors. " The statement by the Jocal Japanese spokesman that Mr. Allison cauld have been shot for failure to obey the orders of a Japanese sentry, may sound very well, but hardly coincides with the facts of the situation. Lois probably Just as well that he was not, for it is apparent that this common assault' has aroused indignation in the United States, and had it been anything more serious the present delicate situation would have been considerably yonder need be felt, therefore, gis his second protest within a Posen Grew, US. Ambessador 10
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