393.1163 C and M Alliance/78: Telegram
The Consul General at Canton (Myers) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 1—6:25 a.m.]
20. Reference my 10, February 4, 5 p.m., and 18, February 23, 6 p.m.,51 burning of property at Lungchow. The French Consul at [Page 867] Lungchow has now informed French Consul here that the Chinese forces had evacuated Lungchow and environs more than 48 hours before the burning of the Christian and Missionary Alliance property on December 23, 1939.
Continuing representations are being made to Japanese Consul General.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, Hong Kong.
- Neither printed.↩