125.4612/170: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, June 25, 1929—7
p.m.
216. Reference your 485, June 17, 7 p.m. Inform Consul at Harbin that the Department wishes to make no formal request for the seals and to conduct no correspondence with the Chinese authorities regarding police action through which they were obtained. The Department would be pleased to have the Consul get possession of the seals or to convince himself of their destruction, provided he could accomplish either end without written request or formalities and without indication that he was acting under instructions.72
Stimson
- In reply, the Consul at Harbin reported that the seals and other materials seized by the Chinese had been forwarded to Mukden headquarters (125.4612/171).↩