893.00/5615: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Bell) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 13—9:51 a.m.]
386. General Connor has just informed me that no trains other than Chinese troop trains having left Tientsin for Shanhaikwan since 9th or arrived from there since 7th, it was decided today at a commandants’ meeting, on the urgent representation of the Japanese and French commandants, to send an international train to Shanhaikwan tomorrow to be followed by two per week until more normal traffic restored.
Trains will carry supplies for foreign troops guarding railway beyond Tientsin, will have mixed guards from all foreign forces guarding railway, will take no civilians into war area but will bring in any to Tientsin who desire.