393.1115/2135: Telegram
The Second Secretary of Embassy in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 9—8 a.m.]
1019. Your [Shanghai’s] 1114, December 8, 5 p.m.
1. As from the American Embassy please convey to the Japanese Embassy the following information.
2. The following 18 American citizens are planning to remain in Nanking indefinitely in connection with hospital, safety zone and newspaper work:
[Here follow names of 18 Americans.]
The American Embassy requests that in case of need the Japanese authorities give appropriate protection and facilities to these Americans.
3. Officers of the Embassy are ashore during day time and evenings.
4. In the absence of officers of the Embassy the building and two compounds of the American Embassy and a dugout at the Ningpo Road corner adjacent to the main premises are in the care of Messrs. T. C. Teng and Wu Yueh Chiao, Chinese clerks. Servants of the Embassy and of its officers, together with the servants families, are living on the premises, as well as 17 special police whom we are paying, and these various persons have been given identification cards. The American Embassy requests that the Japanese authorities give appropriate protection and facilities in case of need to all persons connected with the Embassy.
5. Sent to Shanghai. Repeated to Department, Hankow, Peiping. Peiping repeat to Tokyo with request that Tokyo communicate above information to Japanese Foreign Office. For the Ambassador.