893.00/12603: Telegram
The Counselor of Legation in China (Peck) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 29—8:35 a.m.]
Your [Legation’s?] December 27, 1 p.m. I transmitted the Legation’s message to Vice Minister Hsu Mo and have received the following reply dated December 28:
“Dear Mr. Peck, I have just received your letter of today’s date concerning the recent aerial operations directed by Central Committee [government against?] rebels in Foochow.
In reply I am pleased to inform you that this Ministry has not failed to bring to the attention of the appropriate authorities the observance of the previous communications of your Legation on this subject and that urgent telegrams have now been sent to those authorities apprising them of the principal area of residence of foreigners at Foochow as well as the existence of certain American missionary and commercial establishments outside that area.
I wish to assure you that if further aerial activities are to be conducted, every due precaution will be taken as heretofore by the authorities concerned so as to avoid any unnecessary injury or damage. Sincerely yours, Hsu Mo.”
Repeated to the Legation and the Department.