893.00/10943: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:30 p.m.]
524. Following from American Consul General at Hankow:
“A telegram dated June 24 and received today from an American missionary at Sinyangchow reads as follows: ‘Yesterday morning missionaries Suiping, Honan, driven through streets with sticks by Hsuan Chuan Tui and Tangpus. Details unknown.’”
Following from American Consul General at Hankow:
“June 30, 10 a.m. My June 27, 3 p.m. Personal letter Sinyangchow confirms report that Reverend Thomas J. Lee and Deaconess Thone Sandland, both of whom are American citizens currently registered here, were paraded through the streets of Suiping recently and roughly handled by a local political organization.
Trains on the Kinhan Railway are proceeding as far north as Yencheng. There has been practically no fighting occurring on the Kinhan front for several days.”