Office of the Historian

893.00/13852: Telegram

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

Hankow, December 31, 1936—6 p.m.
[Received December 31—10:15 a.m.]

My telegram of December 28, 9 a.m. Missionaries report and military authorities here confirm that area west of Sian is disturbed. American missionaries there are evacuating to Nancheng, southwestern Shensi. Sent to the Department, Peiping, Nanking, Shanghai.

Jarvis