893.00/7–149: Telegram
The Consul at Dairen (Paddock) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 2—5:42 a. m.]
199. 1. Port Arthur-Dairen executive administration announced June 15 all anti-people or anti-democratic individuals, elements or organizations must register with police within 1 month and at same time surrender their documents, member lists, correspondence codes, weapons, funds, etc. Persons formerly but not now members such organizations also must register. Informers about those failing comply promised ample rewards. Jen Min Daily June 15.
2. Since such organizations not named it thus left to individual to determine member such organization.
3. Order issued just before “exposure espionage AmCon Mukden” June 18. Content and timing suggest likelihood it connected that affair.
4. Local press reported no sensational finds and on June 25 Jen Min Daily editorial urged reactionaries voluntarily report, promising them lenient treatment.
5. Consulate chauffeur Ma who [is] Catholic says members that church pressured register on grounds Roman Catholic Church is a world-wide anti-people and espionage apparatus.
6. Gleysteen’s servant urged by his police residence area chief to register as employee of reactionary organization but no serious pressure when he declined.
[Page 889]Sent Nanking 146; repeated Department; Canton 86, Peiping 23, Shanghai 165, Moscow 110.