393.11/507: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peking, March 27,
1927—7 p.m.
[Received March 27—5:51 p.m.]
[Received March 27—5:51 p.m.]
267. Your 102, March 26, 5 p.m. Following is being sent to American consuls at Changsha and Chungking:
“March 27, 7 p.m. Legation’s March 25, 3 p.m.
- No. 1. You are instructed, as soon as you have given a sufficient length of time for the Americans remaining in your district to withdraw, to close the consulate, remove the archives and proceed to Hankow pending further instructions. Report by telegraph your recommendations with reference to custody of premises, conservation of Government effects and rental payments required by lease.
- No. 2. The foregoing does not cancel the authorization granted you in my March 25, 3 p.m. in an acute emergency to close the consulate at once and withdraw with other Americans.
- No. 3. I am taking up with the commander in chief the matter of the withdrawal of the gunboat simultaneously with closing of consulate.”
I recommend full publicity be given to this proposed measure and am informing press representatives here 28th.
MacMurray