Office of the Historian

893.00/6–448: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, June 4, 1948.
[Received June 3—10:50 p. m.]

1250. After several unheeded warnings Shanghai municipal authorities have suspended local Soviet-owned Chinese morning daily tabloid Shi Tai Jih Pao, 8000 circulation, for publishing anti-Government propaganda. Official indictment is based on Article 21–29 of publication law charging attempt “to disrupt peace and order, to disturb Government economic measures, to instigate students’ and laborers’ riots and to spread rumors”.

Sent Department 1250, repeated Nanking 1006.

Cabot