893.0146/621a
The Department of State to the British Embassy
Aide-Mémoire
Acknowledgment is made of receipt of the British Embassy’s aide-mémoire of January 26 on the subject of withdrawal of establishments in north China.
The Government of the United States would welcome exposition of the British Government’s references to “a general settlement.”
In the interval, the Department requests that the British Ambassador inform the British Government that the Government of the United States is making plans to withdraw its present armed force at Tientsin, two battalions of the 15th Regiment U. S. A., on or about March 4, and simultaneously to send from Peiping to Tientsin, to be stationed temporarily at Tientsin, two companies from the marine guard which this Government now has stationed at Peiping, leaving: at Peiping two companies of that guard.