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The American Minister in China (Johnson) to the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs (C. T. Wang)2
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s note of September 22, 1930,3 regarding the indignities and cruelties perpetrated against certain American citizens of the Lutheran United Mission at Suiping, Honan, by the Propaganda Bureau and Party Headquarters of that city.
It is very evident, from the perfunctory nature of the reply received by Your Excellency from the Central Party Headquarters, that no real investigation has been made of the facts set forth in my previous notes. The Central Party Headquarters merely states that the facts contained in the reports submitted by the Honan Provincial Party Headquarters do not agree with the statements of the American missionaries, but no attempt is made to show in what respect they differ. Furthermore, the reply of the Central Party Headquarters would seem to imply that the American missionaries in question have been interfering with the affairs of the Party Headquarters. This allegation is [Page 200] entirely unsupported by any evidence establishing such interference and is ridiculous.
Inasmuch as no satisfactory action has been taken by the Chinese Government, I must once again strongly urge Your Excellency to cause an impartial and thorough investigation to be made and the perpetrators of these indignities to be punished. I feel sure that it is not the intention of Your Excellency’s Government to permit unfriendly acts of this nature committed by subordinate organizations of the Government to pass without impartial investigation.
I avail myself [etc.]