123 Gleysteen, Culver: Telegram
The Consul at Dairen (Paddock) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 24—6:59 a. m.]
217. One of the five persons with whom Consulate has cordial relations rumored arrested week ago and people who called his house turned away by police. Past evening I asked Gleysteen go there verify rumor man had returned home.
Police admitted Gleysteen, took his identification papers (retained only with difficulty) and took him under guard to district police station (branch of Port Arthur–Dairen Executive Administration). There he was treated insultingly and police refused recognize his official position (calling him merely “overseas American[”]) and refused let him telephone American Consulate. Fortunately in 15 minutes telephone instructions received by police from superiors and Gleysteen released.
I wrote Chief of Civil Administration today protesting this treatment by police agents of Soviet authorities as violation international law in line with Deptel 273 to Moscow April 28, repeated Nanking 531.
Sent Nanking 161, repeated Department, Nanking 97, Shanghai 174, Moscow 119.