Office of the Historian

393.1163/370

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

Washington, November 14, 1929.
No. 1399

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 2372 of October 11, 1929,13 in regard to the occupation of American mission premises by Chinese troops.

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The Department approves the instruction issued to the American Consulate at Tsinan by the Legation under date of October 9, 1929, a copy of which was enclosed with the despatch under acknowledgment.

The Department would be interested in receiving information regarding the results that may follow a direct appeal by American missionaries to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in cases of occupation of mission property by Chinese troops.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Nelson Trusler Johnson
  1. See footnote 97, p. 479.↩