893.24/648: Telegram
The Consul General at Hong Kong (Southard) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 27—8:53 a.m.]
430. The following is a paraphrase of message received by air mail for the Department from Reed at Hanoi:
November 21, 5 p.m. Rumors as yet unconfirmed about the capture of Nanning greatly concern the attention of everyone here interested in the shipment of supplies inland to China. It is apparently certain that an important section of the road from Indo-China to Nanning has been destroyed with the result that all traffic has been stopped. There is great pessimism, among other immediate reactions, as to the future of transit via Indo-China to China.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Saigon informed.