Office of the Historian

893.00/10–3048: Telegram

The Consul General at Mukden (Ward) to the Secretary of State

Mukden, October 30, 1948—6 p. m.
[Received October 31—12:17 a. m.]

452. Eyewitness reports complete disorder at military airfield during evacuation this afternoon highest Kmt officials, including Wei Li-huang, Mayor Tung,17 Governor Wang,18 Commissioner Kao,19 Production [Page 530] Chief Wang Chia-chen,20 Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chiang21 and five provincial governors. Other officials grouped to await fictitious additional planes discovered treachery and fighting broke out. Only with greatest difficulty, including gunfire, could plañe depart. No further CAF evacuation flights contemplated. Minor Kmt officials report no fighting in city’s outskirts, although Communists are stated to be very close to city.

Commercial field in south of city teeming with frustrated refugees.

Department pass Nanking 603.

Ward
  1. Tung Wen-chi, Mayor of Mukden.↩
  2. Wang Tieh-han, Governor of Liaoning.↩
  3. Kao Hsi-ping, Vice Director of the Political Affairs Commission.↩
  4. Chief of the Northeast Production Administration.↩
  5. Chang Chien-fei, Special Commissioner for the Northeast, Chinese Foreign Office.↩