125.8576/6–2449: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 24—9:09 a. m.]
2466. British Consul General has report of unknown reliability that Military Control Commission is considering manufacture incident with assistance of disloyal employees by which mob action against Consulate General would occur, police would intervene and discover framed evidence of contact between Consulate General [and] Nationalists in Consulate General’s premises and apartment building at 70 Rte. Doumer, reconstruction of which just being terminated by contractors. Consulate General has already taken virtually all precautions seem feasible against being rushed either by mob or police but we are again examining arrangements.
Sent Department 2466; repeated Nanking 1331.