Office of the Historian

393.11/1097: Telegram

The Consul at Nanking (Adams) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, April 5, 1930—2 p.m.
[Received April 5—9 a.m.]

14. The following telegram has been sent to the Legation:

“April 5, 1 p.m. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs have just received telegram from the Kiangsi Provincial Government saying that Yuanchow has been recaptured by Government forces and that delegates [Page 100] have been despatched to Yuanchow to take strenuous action to obtain the release of the American and British missionaries who are held by bandits. Hankow informed.”

Adams