393.11/1047
The Consul General at Canton (Jenkins) to the Minister in China (MacMurray)11
Sir: In connection with the Legation’s instruction of October 9, 1929, regarding a communication from the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, requesting that foreigners be warned not to proceed to the interior without first consulting the responsible Chinese authorities, I now have the honor to enclose copies of this Consulate General’s despatch of October 23 to the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Canton, together with that official’s reply of November 7, 1929.12
It will be observed that the Commissioner admits that bandits infest certain areas and urges that the responsible authorities be consulted before foreigners attempt to go into the interior. As the Commissioner says nothing more about the necessity of obtaining “permission” from the local authorities, I assume that the correspondence may be allowed to rest where it now stands, and I shall take no further action unless specifically instructed to do so by the Legation.
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