793.94/3768: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:44 p.m.]
Firing continued intermittently all day yesterday and last night. Using airships the Japanese yesterday bombed the Chinese [Commercial?] Press Building on Paoshan Road, the North Railway Station and other places in the vicinity. A bomb was dropped in the French Concession near the former Walled City. About midnight 29th a crowd of Japanese vigilantes wearing armbands, together with armed Japanese marines entered the American Law School, which is the law school of Soochow University, an American missionary institution. This school is on Quinsan Road in the International Settlement. They were ostensibly searching for arms. Some damage was done to furniture and fixtures. This school and Soochow University Middle School were then sealed by Japanese military. Other similar instances are reported, some causing considerable damage.
2. Contrary to current reports of additional large reinforcements [Page 133] for both sides, told this morning by Mayor that 1,500 gendarmes only had arrived and that no more were coming at present. Japanese Admiral told me this morning that no additional Japanese reinforcements were under consideration.
Repeated to the Legation.