Office of the Historian

125.633/5–2149: Telegram

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

Peiping, May 21, 1949—10 a. m.
[Received May 21—2:13 a. m.]

876. ReDeptel 299, May 17. Letter dated May 19 southeast [sent] headquarters PLA, double registry, yesterday in sense directed. Letter [Page 958] same date mailed Ward express double registry today, enclosing copies 2 letters headquarters and Depreftel.

Letters to headquarters requested travel facilities for Manhard [and] Armstrong.

ReDeptel 278, May 13,56 perforce of course addressed headquarters PLA as such. Since proposed in event nonreply however address either Chu Teh57 or Mao Tse-tung or both re subject, re Contel 860 [896] May 18,58 please instruct re mode address in present instance.

Copy letter to Ward and enclosure sent Tientsin for information.

Sent Department 876, repeated Nanking 569, OffEmb Canton 129, Shanghai 588.

Clubb
  1. Same as telegram No. 98 to the Consul General at Tientsin, p. 1082.↩
  2. Commander in Chief of Chinese Communist armies.↩
  3. Post, p. 1084.↩