393.1123 Nyhus, Phoebe/8: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:20 p.m.]
520. Department’s 278, October 27, 1 [6] p.m. The Embassy assumed that Tangho whence telegram from A. Aandahl was sent was in Chinese occupation because telegraph communications had not been broken and that hence that area including Tungpeh would not have been bombed by Chinese planes. I have telegraphed A. Aandahl for verification of this assumption. The Chinese Aeronautical Commission has informed the Embassy categorically [that no] Chinese planes were sent to that area on October 24, the day of the bombing, and added that both Tungpeh and Tangho are in Chinese occupation. Such other information as the Embassy has currently been able to obtain regarding course of hostilities bears out last assertion. I have inquired what assistance the Embassy can render Nyhus family. Repeated to Shanghai and Hankow which offices should now carry out the Department’s instruction under acknowledgment.
Repeated to Peiping, Shanghai repeat to Tokyo.