Office of the Historian

393.11/563: Telegram

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

Peking, April 8, 1927—3 p.m.
[Received April 8—11:04 a.m.]

383. Pursuant to the Department’s suggestion in last paragraph of its 123, April 4, 3 p.m.,18 and consonant with the policy outlined in my 322, April 2, 5 p.m., I have directed that all women and children of the Legation leave China at an early date.

MacMurray
  1. Ante, p. 101.↩