793.94/3776: Telegram
The Consul General at Nanking (Peck) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, January 31, 1932—10
a.m.
[Received January 31—12:25 a.m.]
[Received January 31—12:25 a.m.]
22. In execution of formulated plan the most important officers of the Chinese Government have temporarily removed their offices from Nanking.
Four Japanese destroyers have just arrived and anchored. I have telephoned to the Japanese Consul in my capacity of Senior Consul and he has again assured me that the Japanese vessels will not take the initiative in fire action.
Repeated to Legation.
Peck