893.00/3–747: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, March 7,
1947—4 p.m.
[Received March 8—12:35 a.m.]
[Received March 8—12:35 a.m.]
481. Fairly reliable information available to Embassy is to effect that within near future wholesale arrests of Communists and their sympathizers will be conducted at Shanghai probably following much same pattern as recent roundup at Peiping (reEmbtel 433, March 3, 7 p.m.). It is stated that Shanghai authorities have list of 3000 Communists to be rounded up and sent to concentration camps in Shantung.
I have been informed by T. V. Soong that Generalissimo granted him special powers to assure that excesses are not perpetrated.
Repeated Shanghai as 238.
Stuart