Office of the Historian

893.00/13019: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, April 16, 1935—4 p.m.
[Received April 16—8:45 a.m.]

I am informed by British Consul General that he understands that as a precautionary measure the foreign women and children are being evacuated from Chengtu owing to the danger from communistic attack. Repeat[ed to] the Hankow Consulate General. Repeated to the Department.

Cunningham