893.00/6–448: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai ( Cabot ) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 4—6:15 a. m.]
1256. ReContel 1003, June 3, repeated 1242 to Department. St. John’s campus yesterday morning scene of reprisals taken by number students incensed over activities of agitators which necessitated order suspending classes. Mass rally being staged by leftist student council leaders broken up by this group and several students reported injured. Council chairman and vice chairman, who were suspended several days ago by school authorities, were driven from campus by students and beaten up by “outsiders”. American member faculty informed Consulate General 20 “outsiders”, whom he believed were plain-clothes men, had entered campus late in morning without being summoned by school authorities.
With resignation President Tu, school now under administration board of faculty in which Americans playing prominent part. Source asserts all tension on campus has now disappeared and no further disturbances there anticipated.
Sent Nanking 1010.