Office of the Historian

393.1115/4068: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, February 17, 1939—1 p.m.
[Received February 17—8 a.m.]

Your February 17, 11 a.m.3

Embassy requests that Commander Jeffs personally inform Americans now at Kuling that Embassy urgently advises them to leave [Page 290] Kuling if possible and expects them to give this advice their most serious consideration taking account of all factors involved.

Sent to Davies. Repeated to Hankow, Shanghai, Peiping.

Peck
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