Office of the Historian

394.115 Panay/24: Telegram

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

Shanghai, December 13, 1937—3 p.m.
[Received December 13—7:30 a.m.]

1142. Japanese Consulate General informs us by telephone that large seaplane will leave early tomorrow morning and land on river [Page 492] in vicinity of Hohsien. Plane is to carry doctors, nurses and medical supplies.

Sent to Hankow, repeated to Peiping.

Gauss