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811.22/1–2247: Telegram

The Consul General at Peiping (Myers) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, January 22, 1947.
[Received January 22—5:50 a.m.]

23. General court-martial in the case of United States vs William G. Pierson found the accused guilty of rape (reference my 331, December 30). Sentence was not announced as it must await approval of convening authority.

Sent Department as 23; repeated Nanking as 15.

Myers