Office of the Historian

893.00/12835: Telegram

The Consul at Canton (Paxton) to the Secretary of State

Canton, October 14, 1934—2 p.m.
[Received October 14—10:20 a.m.]

With reference to the Legation’s October 10, 5 [4?] p.m.68 and Ballantine’s October 10, midnight69 regarding evacuation from Kweichow, I have received a telegram in reply to his stating that Americans are withdrawing from eastern and northern stations, women and children leaving Kweiyang. Concentration at Anshun and Tuhshan. Repeated to the Department, the Legation, Nanking and Hankow. Yunnanfu briefly informed.

Paxton
  1. See telegram No. 460, October 10, 5 p.m., from the Chargé in China, supra.↩
  2. Not found in Department files. Joseph W. Ballantine, Consul General at Canton, had been assigned to Mukden and relinquished his duties at Canton October 11, 1934.↩