893.00 Nanking/74: Telegram
The Consul General at Canton (Jenkins) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 13—10:21 a.m.]
Anti-Nanking incident demonstration scheduled for today postponed to the 16th. Situation continues tense. Government shows some tendency to restrict Communist activities but so far there has been no open rupture.
Strike at Canton Christian College still continues and institution will be closed indefinitely on the 14th. In spite of vigorous protests from the consulate general, local authorities have done little or nothing to relieve strike situation.
Practically all American women and children have left the district except those on Shameen. In the interior there are still about 50 missionaries and 100 in the vicinity of Canton nearly all of whom [Page 290] are men. I shall endeavor to induce women and children to remain at Hongkong until there is some definite improvement in the political situation.
The Legation has been informed.