793.94/5496: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 22—4:50 a.m.]
985. 1. Your 275, August 20, 2 p.m. See my 983, August 20, 5 p.m. No action taken by Diplomatic Corps, no representations or warning made. At the moment I am only chief of mission in Peiping. All quiet and we will not continue discussions until others return at the end of month. I wish to repeat with all emphasis I can summon that Japanese Legation guard is part of Japanese military unit stationed at Tientsin and subject to military control and not control of Legation here. Maneuver in question carried out without previous notice to senior commandant as requested by his circular of last January. Japanese Legation at present in custody of the Third Secretary.
2. Your 271, August 19, 5 p.m., paragraph 1, please see my 894, August 5 [3], 8 p.m.
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