Office of the Historian

893.00/10657: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Perkins) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, December 9, 1929—1 p.m.
[Received 5:21 p.m.]

1112. Legation’s 1107, December 8, 4 p.m. Commander in chief telegraphed December 8th that he will leave Manila for Shanghai December1 11th and that, until present confused political conditions are clarified, a division of destroyers, less those undergoing overhaul, will be assigned to Chinese ports. Destroyers leave Manila December 9th.

Perkins
  1. The Curtiss Aeroplane Export Corporation, Garden City, L. I., and New York, and the Aviation Exploration, Inc. (Del.), New York.↩