893.00/11–148: Telegram

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

474. 1510 hours Communist troops now in effective occupation of Mukden. Small arms fire which has been going on within city since daylight has ceased.

Sent Nanking 619; repeated Department 474, Peiping 245, Tientsin 161, Tsingtao 123.

Ward