893.00/5–2547: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin ( Smyth ) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 25—3 a.m.]
118. Reference my 101, May 24, 11 p.m.23 Arrival at Chinwangtao early morning yesterday of a Nationalist division from Manchuria [caused] change in the situation. Communists dispersed into hills.
Railway administration here reports that temporary repairs have been made on damaged sections of railway and that trains may be run very slowly from Chinwangtao to Luanhsien today; from Luanhsien to Tientsin railway is fairly normal. Large labor forces are being used to repair railway, restore communications with Manchuria and to ship coal to Shanghai. At the Consulate General marines are evacuating their small force (less than 200) from Chinwangtao; evacuation will be completed today.
Sent to Nanking as Tientsin serial number 104; repeated to Shanghai as my 108; to Dept as my 118 and Mukden, Peiping.
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