393.11/1325: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 25—9:15 a.m.]
1000. Legation’s 955, November 2, 3 p.m.17 Following from Canton:
“November 24, 5 p.m. I have just been informed by the Mayor of Canton that the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government is now in receipt of a telegram from the Chairman of the Kiangsi Provincial Government stating that the authorities have ‘officially requested’ American Catholic missionaries at Kanchow to evacuate and proceed to Kwangtung under escort but that missionaries declined to leave on the ground that the city is safe. Missionaries, however, requested that the authorities still extend protection.”
- Not printed.↩