793.94/11448: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 4—8 a.m.]
15. Tsingtao’s December 1, 3 p.m.78 The British Embassy has renewed its inquiry of the various diplomatic missions whether they would be willing to instruct their representatives in Tsingtao to urge upon the Chinese authorities to refrain from carrying out their threat of destroying Japanese property. I replied that our information from Tsingtao was that there now seemed little prospect of such destruction but that I would be willing to instruct the American Consul to associate himself with his colleagues in oral representations to the Chinese authorities urging them to accord protection to all foreign property in Tsingtao.
Sent to Tsingtao, repeated to Peiping.
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