Office of the Historian

793.94/9445: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, August 17, 1937—1 p.m.
[Received August 17—10:55 a.m.]

454. [To Peiping:] Your 438, August 16, 4 p.m.54 On August 16 in a letter requesting Chinese Government to instruct military authorities to avoid endangering Concession areas at Tientsin I also asked that Chinese military authorities remember the existence of the Legation quarter in Peiping in this connection.

Johnson
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