Office of the Historian

393.1115/2217: Telegram

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

Shanghai, December 16, 1937—3 p.m.
[Received December 16—2:10 p.m.]

1162. Referring to my 1156, December 15, 9 p.m.,44 the First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy informed this office this morning that according to reports from the Japanese military in Nanking the 18 Americans who remained in that city are well and uninjured and that the Embassy buildings were not damaged.

Gauss
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