893.111/430: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:54 p.m.]
656. Your November 10, 4 p.m.,9 travel in Honan. On November 18 the Embassy received the following undated telegram from Chengchow: [Page 424]
“Missionaries strongly protest unwarranted order preventing crossing river at Chenghsien. Travel safe (signed) Hoover, C. I. M.13”
In note dated December 21 to the Minister for Foreign Affairs I urged that restrictions on travel in Honan be enforced only when travel circumstances made them necessary. I described the attitude of the Department as set forth in its 243 October 27, 7 p.m., and asked that appropriate telegraphic instructions be sent to Chengchow authorities.
Sent to the Department, Peiping. Repeated to Hankow, Tientsin by mail today.