393.1115/3321a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Swatow (Young)
Washington, June 23, 1938—6
p.m.
Your June 20, 2 p.m.,77 and press reports of bombing attacks on Swatow. The Department is concerned with regard to the safety of Americans in Swatow and vicinity. The Department assumes that you are continuing to advise Americans to avail themselves of practicable means to withdraw, at least temporarily, from places of danger to places of safety. Please inform the Department by radio with regard to the number of Americans now at Swatow and state their principal activities.78
Hull