Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1933, The Far East, Volume III

893.00/12542: Telegram

The Consul General at Canton (Ballantine) to the Secretary of State

Canton, November 28, 1933—10 a.m.
[Received November 28—3 a.m.]

My November 18, 5 p.m.⁹⁷ Marshal Chen informed me yesterday that delegates who had arrived from Fukien to urge Canton to join movement were told that Canton could not do this as the Fukien leaders were cooperating with the Communists and Japanese. Public manifestoes are of a similar tenor but harp also on Fukien’s repudiation of the Kuomintang.

Public uneasiness appears subsiding.

Repeated to the Department, the Legation and to Nanking.

Ballantine

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