Office of the Historian

893.00/12–1648: Telegram

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

Peiping, December 16, 1948.
[Received December 18—1:29 a.m.]

555. Peiping, south (Nankuan) airfield was subjected Communist artillery fire 9 a.m. today whereupon 7 of 8 CNAC and CAT planes on field immediately took off only one remaining presumably for VIPS. Chartered plane Staul [St. Paul] arriving 10 a.m. was therefore signalled off and failed to pick up second load of day.

Sent Nanking 811, Department 555, Shanghai 542, Tsingtao, Tientsin.

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