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Notes Abbreviations LC Library of Congress, Manuscript Division MCRC Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia NA National Archives and Records Administration , Washington, D.C. RG 24 Record Group 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798–1991 RG 38 Record Group 38, Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations RG 45 Record Group 45, Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library RG 59 Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State RG 80 Record Group 80, General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1798–1947 RG 84 Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State RG 127 Record Group 127, Records of the United States Marine Corps, 1775–1981 RG 165 Record Group 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs RG 225 Record Group 225, Records of the Joint Army and Navy Boards and Committees RG 395 Record Group 395, Records of the United States Army Overseas Operations and Commands, 1898–1942 RG 407 Record Group 407, Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1917– Chapter 1. The Navy in the Far East 1. The movements of the Asiatic Fleet and the general conditions facing the Navy in China may be traced through the annual reports of the fleet’s commanders in chief reproduced on microfilm in the National Archives, Microfilm M971. The originals are in RG 80. 2. Schurman to Secretary of State, 14 April 1922, telegram, Decimal File 893.00/4304, RG 59, NA. 3. CINC Asiatic to OPNAV, 27 April 1922, telegram , Decimal File 893.00/4313, ibid.; CINC Asiatic (Strauss) to Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), Annual Report, 17 July 1923, SECNAV General Correspondence, 1916–1926, Microfilm M971, Roll 11, 27403/447, RG 80, NA. 4. Schurman to Secretary of State, 29 April 1922, and Hughes to American Legation Peking, 29 April 1922, telegrams, Decimal File 893.00/4314, RG 59, NA. 5. Schurman to Secretary of State, 1 May 1922, telegram, Decimal File 893.00/4320, ibid. 6. Hughes to American Legation Peking, 2 May 1922, telegram, ibid. 7. Hughes to Secretary of War (Weeks), 9 May 1922, Decimal 893.00/4322, ibid. 8. CINC Asiatic, Annual Report, 17 July 1923, Microfilm M971, RG 80, NA. 9. Schurman to Secretary of State, 8 May 1922, telegram, Decimal File 893.00/4461, RG 59, NA. 10. Schurman to Secretary of State, 11, 15 May 1922, telegrams, Decimal File 893.00/4359, 4363, ibid. 11. CINC Asiatic, Annual Report, 17 July 1923. 12. MacMurray to Hughes, 13 March 1922, and Hughes to General John Pershing, 22 May 1922, Decimal File 893.00/4377, RG 59, NA. 13. W. M. Wright to Adjutant General, War Department, 4 August 1922, Decimal File 893.00/4669, ibid. 14. Schurman to Colonel William F. Martin, 16 November 1922, ibid. 15. Memorandum for Chief of Staff by Brig. Gen. S. Heintzelman, 21 May 1927, with related documents , File 938-12, War Plans Division Records, RG 165, NA. For an excellent review of the Army and Marines in North China, see Morton, “Army and Marines on the China Station.” 16. Hughes to Secretary of War (Weeks), 8 November 1922, United States, Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1922, 1:870–73 [hereafter cited as FRUS with year and volume number]. 17. Powell, My Twenty-five Years in China, 91–124; China Weekly Review, 19 May 1923, 407. 18. Counselor Edward Bell to Secretary of State, 16 May 1923, telegram, FRUS, 1923, 1:639–40. 19. Schurman to Secretary of State, 18, 26 May 1923, telegrams, ibid., 642–43, 648–49. 20. Anderson to Secretary of the Navy, 17 July 1923, SECNAV General Correspondence, 27403-445, RG 80, NA. 21. K 2, 29 May 1923, Office of Naval Intelligence Registers, C-10-a, No. 15357-B, RG 38, NA. 22. Denby to Secretary of State, 11 May 1923, Decimal File 393.1123 Lincheng/122, RG 59, NA. 23. Memorandum by MacMurray, 23 May 1923, Decimal File 393.1123 Lincheng/261, ibid. 24. Memorandum by W. K. Naylor for Chief, Far Eastern Affairs Division, State Department, 21 May 1923, ibid. 25. Hughes to Minister Schurman, 1 June 1923, telegram, FRUS, 1923, 1:650–52. 26. Edwin Cunningham Shanghai to Secretary of State, 12 June 1923, telegram, ibid., 657. 27. Hughes to Schurman, 12 June 1923, telegram, ibid., 636. 28. Hughes to Schurman...

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