Office of the Historian

393.1163/171: Telegram

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

Shanghai, April 16, 1927—4 p.m.
[Received April 16—6:37 a.m.]

Certain missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, including Dr. Nance, president of Soochow University, are contemplating returning to Soochow in open defiance of advice and objections of this consulate general. I urge the strongest negative representations to the home offices of these missionaries at Nashville, Tennessee, to require their missionaries to heed consular advice in the present emergency in China.

Gauss