893.00/6–148: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 2—6:17 a. m.]
1234. Re ConGen’s 983 to Nanking, repeated Department 1226. Violent anti-Government posters, seized by police on 31st from anti-Government anti-American exhibit on Shanghai Law College campus, have been put on display at municipal government building. University presidents, city councillors, press and other organizations have been invited attend exhibition this afternoon which is being held [Page 269] presumably to justify arrest of 5 students who allegedly sponsored anti-Government movement on campus.
According to press descriptions, anti-Government posters in question were largely directed against Generalissimo personally. Two of posters likening him to Yuan Shih-kai, imply he is traitor so [in] that his action in agreeing US Japan policy parallels Yuan’s acceptance Japanese 21 demands.82
Sent Nanking 992, repeated Department 1234.
- For correspondence concerning the movement in 1915 under the Presidency of Yuan Shih-kai to restore monarchical government in China and concerning Japanese demands on China, see Foreign Relations, 1915, pp. 44 ff. and ibid., 1916, pp. 51 ff.↩