793.94/8189: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, September 28, 1936—7
p.m.
[Received September 28—1:35 p.m.]
[Received September 28—1:35 p.m.]
520. Situation in Shanghai quiet but Japanese community tense. Few Japanese patrols still being maintained in Chinese territory. With reinforcements landed from five Japanese destroyers which arrived yesterday, strength of Japanese naval forces ashore estimated to be 2400 men supplemented by civilian reserves now five to six thousand. Three Japanese cruisers anchored off Woosung, five destroyers and Japanese flag ship at Shanghai. Repeated to Peiping and by mail to Nanking.
Gauss