Office of the Historian

893.00/12146: Telegram

The Consul General at Hankow (Adams) to the Secretary of State

Hankow, September 16, 1932—noon.
[Received September 16—5:10 a.m.]

87. 1. Government troops now occupy Pailochi, Low Point and Chuho. The main body of communist troops in central Hupeh are reliably reported entirely surprised by Government troops in the Red Lake region.

2. The National Flood Relief Commission engineers who were taken as hostages by the Communists in connection with Baker’s release have now been rescued. The Baker case may therefore now be considered as closed.

Adams