893.00/12607: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 31—11:40 a.m.]
943. Legation’s 941, December 30, 10 p.m. Following has been sent to Peck at Nanking:
“December 81, 1 p.m. Your December 30, noon, has been repeated to the Consuls at Amoy and Foochow. You may so inform the Foreign Office, but should state that the advice contained in its note cannot be regarded as in any way absolving the Chinese Government from full responsibility for the safety of Americans and American property not only at Kulangsu and Nantai Island but in all of Fukien Province.”