Office of the Historian

793.94/11525: Telegram

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

Shanghai, December 8, 1937—5 p.m.
[Received December 8—9:55 a.m.]

1114. The Senior Consul informs me he has received a communication from the Japanese Consul General which in substance states that it is the earnest wish of the Japanese forces that all foreign [Page 392] nationals now remaining Nanking should stay away from the zone of actual fighting by evacuating from that city without delay.

Sent to Nanking, repeated to Hankow and Peiping.

Gauss