893.00/12469: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 22—11:15 a.m.]
Personal letter from American missionary [at] Changli states refugees pouring into that city from Funinghsien which place was infested by bandits morning of 19th, the bandits, apparently numbering several thousand, coming down from the north and northeast burning and looting as they came.
Vernacular newspapers describe invaders as troops of Fang Chen-wu, Tang Yu-lin, Li Shou-hsin and others of the puppet state, with bandits under Lao Hao-tzu, all wearing brown uniforms with arm bands reading “The Eastern Asiatic Allied Forces”.
The situation in the affected area which is in the demilitarized zone is becoming increasingly acute.