Office of the Historian

893.11/738

The American Minister in China (MacMurray) to the British Minister in China (Lampson)42

Peking, December 20, 1927.

My Dear Lampson: I thank you very much for your courtesy in sending me, with your note of December 14th, an extract from a telegram which you had just received from Canton43 regarding the assistance rendered by H. M. S. Moorhen in the evacuation of foreigners during the recent communist disturbances in that region.

The activities of the H. M. S. Moorhen in behalf of Americans is deeply appreciated by this Legation, and I should be most pleased if you would be so good as to express to the proper British naval authorities my gratitude in this connection.

Yours, very sincerely,

J. V. A. MacMurray
  1. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Minister as an enclosure to his despatch No. 1346, Jan. 9, 1928; received Feb. 18.↩
  2. Neither note nor its enclosure is printed.↩