393.1163/837
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 1.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose copies of three letters90 received within the last month from American missionaries at Nantungchow and Jukao, Kiangsu, which may be of interest to the Department as showing the conditions of restriction and interference by the Japanese military under which some American missionaries are attempting to carry on their work.
Among the conditions mentioned are: serious restriction of personal movements; unpleasant and indecent search of the person of a woman missionary; insistence that Americans remove their hats as a sign of respect to Japanese sentries; requirement that permission be obtained to operate a medical clinic; repeated trespass upon American property by Japanese soldiers; looting of effects belonging to Americans; maltreatment of Chinese while on American property; and forced removal of Chinese mission workers from mission property and their detention in a Japanese controlled refugee camp.
Respectfully yours,
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