393.11/388
The Consul General at Canton (Jenkins) to the Minister in China (MacMurray)62
Sir: I have the honor to inform the Legation that a large number of Americans have returned to the Canton consular district during the past two weeks, including many women and children. Most of the American missionary institutions at Canton have reopened and the attendance averages between seventy-five and ninety percent, of normal.
The general attitude toward Americans has shown considerable improvement during the past month but conditions are still so unsettled that I have not deemed it proper for me actually to advise American women and children to return. I have let it be understood however that I did not consider the situation unduly dangerous and that if Americans wished to come back to their homes they could do so but at their own risk.
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- Copy received by the Department on December 4.↩