793.94/5164: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received May 6—2:22 p.m.]
222. The Japanese are withdrawing today one infantry battalion from each of the following localities to Woosung for embarkation to Dairen: Nanziang, Lotien, Liuho, Kiating. Total about 24,000 men of the 3d Division. It is expected that the Nanziang-Liuho positions will be evacuated by May 9, when Chinese police force of 300 men now on the way from Nanking will take over the control of evacuated [Page 3] districts in accordance with the peace agreement concluded yesterday. Additional police are en route here from Peiping. Please inform War Department.
Repeated to the Legation, copy to the Minister.