Office of the Historian

893.00/7–748: Telegram

The Consul at Peiping (Touchette) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, July 7, 1948.
[Received July 7—9:18 a. m.]

262. ReContel 261, July 6. Martial law still in effect Peiping but situation apparently easing following student demonstration July 5. Strict curfew imposed night July 6 from 7 p. m., to 7 a. m. Curfew for night July 7 scheduled to be 11 p. m. to 6 p. m. [a. m.?]

Repeated Shanghai 276, Nanking 416, Tientsin.

Touchette