Office of the Historian

793.94/9298: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, August 12, 1937—4 p.m.
[Received August 12—6:05 a.m.]

455. Mayor Yui reported abandoned civic center headquarters and city government is reported moving to Minghong, about 15 miles west of Shanghai. I have requested Americans in outlying areas to come within the Settlement and usual defence lines, as have British. Chinese panicky with heavy exodus to Settlement south of Soochow Creek.

Repeated to Nanking and Peiping.

Gauss