Office of the Historian

793.94/8128: Telegram

The Consul at Hankow (Jarvis) to the Secretary of State

Hankow, September 9, 1936—5 p.m.
[Received September 9—10:05 a.m.]

There are now six vessels of the Japanese Yangtze River forces (11th Squadron) at Hankow (the Atoka, Katata, Atami, Toba, Futami and Kotaka) and two at Chungking (the Hozu and Hira). Five of the six vessels at Hankow arrived on September 7th, 8th and 9th. The 11th Squadron numbers 12 vessels.

2.
Chaucer Wu, the Foreign Office’s special delegate for Szechuan and Sikang, flew through Hankow yesterday on his way from Chengtu to Nanking to report.
3.
In Chengtu, according to a reliable foreign source there, the authorities are trying to curb anti-Japanese expressions, there is now little evidence of anti-foreign feeling, and students are politer than they have been for years. Sent to Peiping, Nanking, Shanghai.
Jarvis