793.94/11807: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Shanghai,] December 26, 1937—11:42
a.m.
[Received December 26—7 a.m.]
[Received December 26—7 a.m.]
1230. Japanese Consul General informs me this morning that he has received a message from the Japanese military at Hangchow saying that at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a representative of the foreign community reported all foreigners and foreign property at Hangchow safe and requested that this information be conveyed to the interested Consular representatives at Shanghai.
Repeated to Hankow and Peiping.
Gauss