Office of the Historian

893.00/8572: Telegram

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

Peking, April 5, 1927—6 p.m.
[Received April 5—6:40 a.m.]

345. 1. About January 6 the British ordered the evacuation of all their nationals from areas under Nationalist control to the treaty ports [Page 280] with consular discretion as to evacuation from treaty ports when necessary. They have now issued the same instructions with regard to the withdrawal of all of their nationals from the interior of North China.

2. Regarding Japanese withdrawal, please see my telegram 329, April 3, 4 p.m.15

MacMurray
  1. Extract—paraphrase: “My Japanese colleague has recommended to his Government that all Japanese in Nationalist territory, about 2,000, be withdrawn.” (File No. 893.00/8529.)↩