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COPY.
1490/jl
The Connandants,
Embassy Guards,
Peiping, China.
Sirs,
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HEADQUARTERS, MARINE DETACHMENT,
AMERICAN EMBASSY, PRIPING, CHINA.
22 July 1939.
237
Through the medium of a local paper, it has
come to my attention that a meeting of a political
character was hold on the Tung Tan Pai Lou glacis on the
evening of Tuesday, 18 July last.
It has long been an established practice to
prohibit the holding of meetings of a political character
in the Diplomatic Quarter or the Glacis surrounding it.
This was with a view to precluding the possibility of dis-
turbing the good order and peace of the Diplomatic quarter.
We, the International Guards, are responsible
to our respective governments for the security of our
diplomatic representatives and their entourages, our
nationals, and property within the Diplomatic Quarter.
Therefore, every means placed at our disposal should be
employed in maintaining the peace and security which the
diplomatic representatives of many nations residing therein
have so long enjoyed.
Any act, actual or proposed, which in any way
tends to jeopardize the peace and security of the Diplomatic
Quarter should be reported to the Senior Commandant
immediately.
Copy to:-
Embassies,
Diplomatic Quarter
Commission,
The Commander-in-Chief,
United States Asiatic
Fleet.
I have the honour to be,
sire,
Your obedient Servant,
A.H. TURNAGE,
COLONEL, U.S. MARINE CORPS,
COLMANDANT, UNITED STATES MABASSY GUARD, SENIOR COMANDANT, INTERNATIONAL GUARDS.
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