393.11/543: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peking, March 31,
1927—6 p.m.
[Received March 31—12:40 p.m.]
[Received March 31—12:40 p.m.]
305. Your number 102, March 26, 5 p.m.
- 1.
- Legation received March 30th from local representative Standard
Oil Company, following text of telegram received by him from
Shanghai office of company:
“Please advise American Legation that we protest against reported contemplated closing of consulate and withdrawing gunboats from Chungking and also Changsha, respectively.”
- 2.
- I am replying today that the Legation March 27th instructed the consuls at Changsha and Chungking as soon as a sufficient length of time had been given for the Americans remaining in their districts to withdraw, to close their respective consulates and proceed to Hankow; that the commander in chief has issued instructions for the gunboats to withdraw from these ports simultaneously with the departure of the consuls; and that the substance of the foregoing was released to the press representatives in Peking on March 28th.
MacMurray