Office of the Historian

393.1163/163: Telegram

The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State

Peking, May 12, 1927—7 p.m.
[Received May 12—8:55 a.m.]

547. Following from American consul at Nanking:

“May 11, 8 p.m. A considerable number of American mission buildings in Nanking are still occupied as barracks, and one church is being used as a military hospital.”

MacMurray