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893.00/5–2347: Telegram

The Consul General at Tientsin (Smyth) to the Secretary of State

Tientsin, May 23, 1947 [—8 p.m.]
[Received May 23—4:47 p.m.]

113. Reference my 96, May 23, 11 a.m.17 LCI evacuated 66 persons, including 2 Americans (Mrs. George Simme and Clinton Sharp) from Peitaiho this afternoon, due arrive Tientsin tomorrow morning.

Edward Dixon, one of Americans at Changli (my 94, May 22),18 arrived here this afternoon, coming by push car and train. Reports all Americans safe, well. Three Americans taken away with several hundred mission students when Communists captured Changli May 18 and held in nearby hills for 2 days: not molested by Communists and escorted back to Changli, May 22. Mission and city thoroughly looted.

Sent to Nanking as Tientsin Serial No. 99, May 23, repeated Shanghai as No. 103, to SecState as No. 113, to Mukden and Peiping.

Smyth
  1. Repeated to the Department as No. 110, supra.↩
  2. Repeated to the Department as No. 108, p. 138.↩