Papers Relating to the Foreign relations of the United States, 1927, Volume II

125.643/9: Telegram

The Minister in China ( MacMurray ) to the Secretary of State

Peking , March 31, 1927—noon .
[Received March 31—5:42 a.m.]

300. Davis reports: March 30, noon. The consulate is gutted but safes as yet unopened and many books and volumes bound correspondence still there. Police are on guard but soldiers disregard them. Unrestrained looting foreign houses continued through March 28th.

MacMurray