393.1124/8: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:45 p.m.]
669. Deportation requests. My 643, July 16, noon, and 642, July 16, 11 a.m.99 I requested Shanghai Municipal Police to afford special protection to the Americans.
I have now received a letter dated July 18th from “Mayor Fu”1 quoting a telegram received by him from “President Wang of the [Page 891] Executive Yuan of the National Government” along the line previously reported. Fu states that these Americans have “since the outbreak of the incident been in collusion with rebels” and “have taken actions to destroy peace, endanger the security of the Republic and overthrow the National Government.” Fu then requests me promptly to instruct the Americans “to comply and leave Shanghai in the shortest possible period without fail and refrain from loitering.”
Unless the Department instructs otherwise I shall file the letter without reply. It does offer an opportunity, however, to indicate to my Japanese colleague that he may inform these regimes that orderly processes exist to any and all persons having complaints against Americans to prosecute them in the legally constituted United States Court for China.
Sent to Department. Repeated to Peiping, Chungking.