Office of the Historian

393.1163P92/100: Telegram

The Consul at Tsingtao (Gourley) to the Secretary of State

Tsingtao, May 26, 1938—5 p.m.
[Received May 26—9:28 a.m.]

My May 25, 2 p.m., and May 25, 8 p.m.26 American Presbyterian Mission in Tsingtao ordered all refugees to leave school compound and notified Japanese that order had been given. Relatives of suspected man have already left.

Repeated to Hankow, Peiping.

Gourley
  1. Neither printed; see Department’s reply, May 25, 9 p.m., supra.↩