Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.00/562.

The American Consul General at Shanghai to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Shanghai ([undated;] received Oct. 13, 1911).

The Hankow situation is more than a mere outbreak. Admiral Sah says that it is the most serious thus far. Chinese sympathy is with the rebels. Japanese-British admirals are on the scene; Japanese prominent; Political situations are possible

Wilder.