793.94/14205: Telegram
The Consul General at Hankow (Josselyn) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 27—7:15 a.m.]
21. No incidents arising out of the Japanese occupation of Wuhan and involving Americans have thus far been reported. The Japanese troops are said to have been orderly last night in the Chinese city as well as in the refugee zone. By nightfall yesterday they were in full possession of the ex-German Concession. They now have troops billeted in the ex-Russian and ex-British Concessions. This morning a large Japanese force marched through the former British concession.
There are now more than 35 Japanese naval vessels and transports, not including sea sleds and other miscellaneous small craft, in harbor. More are arriving.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, Shanghai.