393.1163Am3/430: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 7—5:50 a.m.]
572. Peiping’s 557, October 24, 6 p.m.79 Embassy is in receipt of a letter from the Sisters of Providence at Kaifeng stating that (1) permission has been received to reopen school which has been registered with the Provincial Board of Education as a middle school, (2) inasmuch as value of property and equipment far exceeds the amount required, question of endowment has been waived and (3) although the authorities have required that a Japanese teacher be employed to teach the Japanese language the school has been permitted [Page 404] temporarily to employ a Japan-educated Chinese for this purpose.
Repeated to Chungking and Hankow. Code text by air mail to Tokyo.
- Not printed.↩