893.00/5612: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, October 13,
1924—11 a.m.
[Received October 13—2:38 a.m.]
[Received October 13—2:38 a.m.]
Referring to my telegram today 10 a.m. Practically certain Generals Lu and Ho went aboard Shanghai Maru between 4 and 5 this morning. Vessel sailed for Nagasaki at 8:30 a.m. Military headquarters at Lunghua completely deserted. Well-founded rumor to the effect that mutineers from the front reached military headquarters about midnight creating great confusion which possibly was the immediate cause of the generals’ deserting their loyal troops.
Cunningham