125.9531/7–949: Telegram
The Consul at Tsingtao (Hawthorne) to the Secretary of State
Tsingtao, July 9,
1949—11 a. m.
[Received July 9—7:41 a. m.]
[Received July 9—7:41 a. m.]
325. Chinese staff not actually evicted from 1 Kwangsi Road till yesterday, when Consul General protested by unsigned memo (re Deptel 184, July 7). Memo of June 13 protesting against occupation informed Communists property US Government-owned (re mytel 261, that date).
Sent Department 325; repeated Nanking 222.
Hawthorne