Office of the Historian

893.00/1–2449: Telegram

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

Peiping, January 24, 1949.
[Received January 24—8:06 a. m.]

117. By present reports no Americans were killed or injured in course recent fighting and turnover of PPG.14 This report includes Americans [at] Tungchow from which point report received today but does not include recent information from either Yenching-Tsinghua area or western suburbs. At last report, however, Americans these two districts were also safe and it is believed their welfare also assured. So far as known at present only foreigners killed or injured were one German killed and one British wounded as previously reported.

Sent Department 117, Nanking 100, Shanghai 100.

Clubb
  1. Peiping. For information on Communist occupation of Peiping, see telegram No. 94, January 20, 5 p. m., p. 59.↩