893.00/10–2748: Telegram

The Consul General at Tientsin (Smyth) to the Secretary of State

305. Local press reports faculties of Nankai and Peiyang Universities will suspend class work for 3 days as “protest against present state of unbearable living”.

Sent Nanking 549, repeated Department 305, Shanghai 517 and Peiping.

Smyth