Office of the Historian

893.00/11–2348: Telegram

The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, November 23, 1948.
[Received November 23—3:49 a. m.]

484. Local press today reports voluntary withdrawal yesterday Nationalist Forces from Paoting. Communist north Shensi radio last night announced occupation that point by Communist forces same day.

Sent Department 484, repeated Nanking 714, and Tientsin.

Clubb