393.11/452: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
Washington, February 4,
1927—3 p.m.
47. Your No. 90, January 28, 9 A.M., second paragraph.
- 1.
- The Department is informed that mission headquarters in the United States have received telegrams from the Treasurer of Yale-In-China stating that the American Consul at Changsha has “ordered” the departure of American citizens. The telegram states that the local situation is not serious and, while there was no apparent danger to property, the latter might be confiscated or destroyed if all foreigners were ordered to leave. Mission headquarters state no Standard Oil employees had left Hunan or Hupeh and questioned whether missionary interests were not being sacrificed unnecessarily.
- 2.
- The Department does not question the wisdom of any steps taken by the Legation or the Consulate but desires to know whether the Consulate has differentiated between Americans engaged in different pursuits or has couched the advice in the form of orders.
- 3.
- The Department would be assisted in replying to inquiries of this category by the receipt of reports of specific dangers to American interests when new dangers arise.
Grew