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Mr. Mac } T akes | - Another Look | and Finds That Stolen Amerasia Papers Contained Secrets After All By SCRIPPS: HOWARD NEWSPAPERS The Justice Department did an about (See editorial on Page 10, and dames Daniel on Page Iie} face today and admitted. that the stolen Amerasia documents contains al James MI. Assistant Attorney Gener Alraohe AT nne cA ey alfho he did not eC} ars Pere : awe UU Oo OB Pe Lit, ; This newspaper and others published the na stolen documents _ We ctibmaiines in the Pacific, a cable fr “eves only”, messages and a report of alissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Melnerney said Wednes-: day that he had studied all ol the Amer: onts— were recovered in 1945 by FSI ina yaid_on Amerasia'’s of | fice—-ancdl that the con nove af them “remotely yeses Died? th ose describe he newspaper_ accounts a2.4_ cone | ‘firmed by Sen. Bourke Hicken-! leaper Ut, Ta.). ; Sr there Were anything in them’ like that, F would have known about | it,” Mr. McInerney said Wednesday. . His ahout face yesterday followed diseiosure by the Slate Department’ of the existence of one of the docu- menis — the socalled “Hull” to Chungking cable, In it, the _atten- lion of the U. S. Embassy in Chung: : ‘king was called to an article in the ; pro-Communist Amerasia magazine. , A few hours after the Slate De-) partment’s disclosure, Mr. Meln. | crney admitted of the existence of three of the five papers. His ex: i - planation of fis crroncous denial - was that the documenis actually oviginal Government decu-} ments --- but copies of speeches, or, reports, or personal notes. ' The infoymation on the location, of the 25 submarines, he said, was contained ino notes on a wartiine speech by former Ambassador Jo: vaeph ©. Grew. The speech wis J Titrireesefure Slate Deparungnt per: sonnel, he said. alan] Line! I werent WASSINSTON NIRS PAT lt ed secret mill ‘asia documents—which | § tary information. Melnerney retracted his previous denial, wen at2 e from President Roosevelt to Mr. McInerney said he believed that the notes were made by Eré-| anuel §. Larsen, a former Stak. epartment worker. Larsen wds' ong the six arrested in 1945 ih, 1 Amecrasia case. He pleaded m0: detense and was fined $500. ' Mr. McInerney also said there was , found a personal memorandum among the Amerasia documents! which refers to the “eyes only” mes- sages—those to be read only by the person to whom they were Ad- ressed. But the Assistant Attormey eneral said the memorandum vas ot a “Government document.” China’s Gener-!