Office of the Historian

893.102 Kulangsu/300: Telegram

The Consul at Amoy (MacVitty) to the Secretary of State

Amoy, March 22, 1940—11 a.m.
[Received March 22—10:46 a.m.]

Reference my telegram March 21, 2 p.m.,83 with reference to the attempted assassination of Yin.84 The Japanese have again put into effect their blockade between Kulangsu and the mainland as well as between the International Settlement and Amoy.85

The puppet mayor: of Amoy in an interview published in today’s Fukien Daily News of Amoy (Japanese sponsored newspaper) stated, “as the Kulangsu Municipal Council cannot keep order in Kulangsu, the Settlement should be returned to the Chinese.” The U. S. S. Asheville is in port.

Sent to Peiping. Repeated to Chungking and Shanghai.

MacVitty
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. A Japanese subject.↩
  3. The blockade was lifted on April 5.↩