893.00/3–449: Telegram
The Consul General at Peiping ( Clubb ) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 3—11:14 p. m.]
350. ReContel 201, February 9. Although phone communications with Yenching [and] Tsinghua have been restored for about 2 weeks, movements foreigners that general area still under restriction. Foreigners Tsinghua are able come in town with passes (now required for passage through, all gates) while Yenching foreigners are confined campus by request Communist authorities, this nominally for their protection.
ECA personnel Peiping informed by Foreign Nationals Office they will be given travel passes when ready to leave. Foreign businessmen who obtained travel passes Bureau Police Tientsin for trip here discovered Peiping police uninstructed, therefore unable issue passes. Americans successfully returned Tientsin but reported back by phone travel to Tientsin without at least Tientsin pass would get into difficulties since controls worse than before.
Oldtime employee Mukden Consulate planning return Mukden confirms general impression travel to Manchuria more difficult than elsewhere.