793.94/5263: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 23—10:30 a.m.]
258. Lieutenant Soule this date personally witnessed the withdrawal by the Japanese Army of the defense force from Chenju and the vicinity of Chenju Station; and the withdrawal by the Japanese naval landing party from sector of Chapei including “North Station” to area in “Chapei” assigned by Sino-Japanese peace agreement, article 3, annex 2, as area 4, a locality Japanese troops may temporarily be stationed in. Both areas were taken over without incident and control assumed by the Peiping police. One section (25 men) Japanese landing party still occupying Toyoda cotton mill and one section occupying Siccawei school west of Settlement area.
Repeat to War Department. Repeated to the Legation.