Office of the Historian

893.0146/759: Telegram

The Consul General at Hankow (Spiker) to the Secretary of State

Hankow, December 15, 1939—10 a.m.
[Received December 16—5 a.m.]

278. Referring to my No. 276, December 13, 2 p.m.,20 and previous concerning withdrawal of British and French gunboats from the Yangtze. British have ordered withdrawal of three further gunboats from Shanghai-Hankow section of the river, these including Hankow station ship H. M. S. Peterel which departs December 18 leaving U. S. S. Guam as only non-Japanese gunboat here.

Repeated to Peiping, Chungking, Shanghai.

Spiker
  1. This telegram reported the departure of a French gunboat (893.0146/758).↩