893.00/10552: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, October 8, 1929—1
p.m.
[Received 3:57 p.m.]
[Received 3:57 p.m.]
867. Following from American Consul General at Hankow:
“At 10 a.m. Thursday steamship Iling of Yangtze Rapids Steamship Company was fired on by Chinese troops at mileage 219 above Hankow. Ship struck 6 times, but no casualties. I have lodged protest with Commissioner of Foreign Affairs.”
MacMurray