393.11/494: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, March 26,
1927—7 p.m.
[Received March 26—8:20 a.m.]
[Received March 26—8:20 a.m.]
Situation here today very tense and greatest precautions being taken. Chiang Kai-shek reported to have arrived here today. Consulate general continuing radio broadcast warning to Americans in the interior to evacuate. Some coming in, others known en route. Destroyer sent this evening to endeavor to take off Presbyterian missionaries at Kiangyin and Taichow on Yangtze and Seventh Day Adventists at Chiaoto Cheng [Kiaotowchen] near Chinkiang.
Gauss