893.00/8–2349: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (McConaughy) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 23—8:45 a. m.]
3399. In first public mention of Chen Yun (labor trouble-shooter sent from Peiping whose presence Shanghai hitherto kept secret), Ta Kung Pao August 1 reports Chen previous day addressed meeting industrial leaders, analyzing and suggesting solution for Shanghai’s difficulties which he termed only temporary. Stressed need maintain activities of major industries and “tide over existing difficulties” and assured that “both public and private enterprises will have every chance develop” and city’s manufactured goods will soon “be shipped all parts of country for consumption”.
Sent Department 3399, repeated Nanking 1822.