393.11/2170: Telegram
The First Secretary of Embassy in China (Smyth) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, October 9, 1940—6
p.m.
[Received October 9—2:50 p.m.]
[Received October 9—2:50 p.m.]
372. Dr. Leighton Stuart32 who is on friendly terms with General Tada, Commander of the Japanese North China army, was informed [Page 901] by the General this afternoon during a conversation that he had issued telegraphic instructions yesterday to all military garrisons under his command to give full protection to Americans at this time when tension was increasing.
Sent to the Department.
Repeated to Chungking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tokyo.
Smyth
- American president of Yenching University, Peiping.↩