793.94/2646: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 13—9:10 a.m.]
The following telegram has been sent to the Legation today:
“November 13, 3 p.m. The tension which has existed since Sunday night is somewhat relaxed today due to the arrangement entered into between the Japanese and the Chinese by which the latter will send police into the 300-meter zone to search for plain-clothes men. There was some hitch, however, in carrying out this arrangement but the Japanese Consul General has informed me that an amicable adjustment has been made. There was intermittent rifle and machine-gun firing again last night but of greatly reduced intensity. Eight or ten bullets struck the buildings of the Methodist Episcopal Mission yesterday morning during the firing but no damage was inflicted.
[Page 435]There has been absolutely no information available today to confirm the report in the second paragraph of my November 12, 6 [2?] p.m.11
There are two Japanese destroyers at Tangku but they cannot proceed to Tientsin because of shallow water depth of Haiho.
Foreign troops are still on duty in their respective defense areas.”
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