Office of the Historian

893.00 Nanking/57: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, April 11, 1927—4 p.m.
[Received April 11—7:22 a.m.]

Demands on account of Nanking outrages were presented simultaneously at 3:15 o’clock this afternoon by the five consuls general to General Pei for immediate transmission to Chiang Kai-shek. No difficulty experienced in presenting demands. Pei made no comment except to say he would transmit the communication to Chiang.

Legation has been informed.

Gauss