Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1930, Volume II

893.00/11042: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, August 1, 1930—5 p.m.
[Received August 2—9:10 a.m.]

648. Legation’s 647, Aug. 1, 4 p.m. Following from Reuter, Hankow, July 21st [31st?]:

“Martial law has been proclaimed here.

Six Communists were arrested and summarily executed at Wuchang this morning.

The Japanese as a precautionary measure are constructing barbed wire entanglements around the Japanese concession here.

Two hundred foreigners who were spending the summer at Kuling are being evacuated immediately.

The Red bandits who captured Siaokan, north of Hankow, have destroyed most of the railway bridges in its vicinity.”

Johnson