393.1163/105: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State6
[Received February 17—9:35 a.m.]
149. Following from Canton:
“February 16, 9 a.m. Numerous American missionaries who left interior stations on my advice are now beginning to drift back although we have no assurance that antiforeign crisis may not develop at any time. It is foolhardy for these people to return to the interior at present, and I venture to hope the Department may find it possible to intervene through mission headquarters at home.”
I concur in Jenkins’ suggestion and I am instructing him to urge all American citizens to refrain at present from returning to interior points from which they cannot be promptly evacuated in an emergency.
- The substance of this telegram was communicated by the Department in a letter of Feb. 28 to A. L. Warnshuis, secretary of the International Missionary Council, New York, for transmission to mission organizations concerned.↩