893.00/10056: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 11—10:50 a.m.]
448. My 442, June 9, 11 [7] p.m., paragraph two, A. Following telegram dated June 10 has been received by the Senior Minister from Y. L. Tong of the Nationalist Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
“I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s telegram of June 9th to Chairman Tan Yen-kai of Nationalist Government and to inform you that we have taken note of this [its?] contents. We are deeply concerned over your report on the sudden return General Pao’s force to eastern suburb of Peking after they had already effected their peaceful withdrawal from that city. The Nationalist Government has telegraphed to the commanders at the front instructing them to investigate the situation and to devise means for affording safety to the said force.”