Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1936, The Far East, Volume IV

893.00/13413: Telegram

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

Shanghai, March 21, 1936—noon.
[Received March 21—7:30 a.m.]

170. My 164 [165], March 19, 4 p.m. Shanghai office China Inland Mission now states has received messages from Linfen (Pingyangfu) and Taiyuan that Hungtung communications cut. Missionaries at Linfen are British and have requested evacuation by airplane. Repeated to Peiping, Nanking and Tientsin.

Gauss