Office of the Historian

893.00/11253: Telegram

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

Peiping, October 22, 1930—4 p.m.
[Received October 22—11 a.m.]

920. 1. Following from the American Consul at Nanking:

“October 21, noon. Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a representative this morning to inform me that Kian, Kiangsi, is in the hands of bandits and that such Americans as may be in Kian should withdraw at once to places of safety if it is possible for them to do so. The Ministry stated that Kiangsi provincial troops are now en route to Kian to attack the bandits there. I gather that the Ministry fears that the attack by Government troops upon Kian may endanger any Americans there. The Ministry is of the opinion that quick telegraphic notification to Americans in Kian is necessary. Hankow informed.”

2. Legation is instructing Adams to urge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take steps for the release at the earliest possible moment of the Filipino Sister taken by bandits at Kian. (See Hankow’s October 21, 3 p.m.)

Johnson