Office of the Historian

893.00/11130: Telegram

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

Peiping, August 27, 1930—1 p.m.
[Received August 27—1:55 a.m.]

757. Two Nationalist planes, apparently Douglases, recently delivered, flew over and dropped three bombs which fell in southern part of city this morning at 10 o’clock. Planes apparently from Tsinanfu; also used machine gun. Please inform War Department as from Military Attaché. Apparently no great damage was done. One bomb did not explode.

Johnson