893.00/13413: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

170. My 164 [165], March 19, 4 p.m. Shanghai office China Inland Mission now states has received messages from Linfen (Pingyangfu) and Taiyuan that Hungtung communications cut. Missionaries at Linfen are British and have requested evacuation by airplane. Repeated to Peiping, Nanking and Tientsin.

Gauss