Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 89.3.00/1764.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking, July 19, 1913.

The American Consul General at Shanghai telegraphs that Shanghai has declared independence.

Accurate news from the interior is hard to obtain, but four of the central provinces are believed to have declared independence, and efforts are being made to organize an independent government at Nanking.

Williams.