893.00/11932: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received May 6—12:45 a.m.]
500. Legation’s 470, April 25, 5 p.m. Following from American Consul General at Nanking:
“May 2, 11 a.m. Your April 25, 3 p.m. I called upon Minister for Foreign Affairs April 26 and left with him an aide-mémoire which urged the National Government to take all possible measures to protect American life and property in Amoy and Kulangsu. A note from the Ministry dated May 4 states that the Fukien Provincial Government, the Ministry of the Navy and the Ministries [Ministry?] of Military Administration, have been instructed by the National Government to instruct the naval and military forces at Amoy and Kulangsu to give full and special protection to American life and property there.”