893.00/5673: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:21 p.m.]
Following by radio from Chargé d’Affaires at Peking:
“Number 402, October 23rd. C. T. Wang has just been to see me, informs me he participated in Feng Yu-hsiang’s coup d’état as did Huang Fu, Minister of Education, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs. Wang Ko-ming, Minister of Finance, had been arrested as had General Li of the President’s office. President and other Cabinet Ministers were at present under surveillance and would later be sent from Peking after which there will be a government by a committee which would invite Chang Tso-lin, Sun Yat-sen, Tuan Chi-jui and other prominent leaders to a round-table conference with the object of unifying China, adjusting debts and disbanding superfluous troops and forming new government. I told Wang if communications were not restored at once there will be serious trouble with foreign governments and he assured me it would be done as soon as possible. Peking quiet.”