793.94/1904: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 28—7 a.m.]
675. Following two telegrams have just been received from American Consul General at Nanking:
“September 28, 10 a.m. I have received eyewitness report that crowd of students from Shanghai and Nanking aggregating more than 2,000 are mobbing the Foreign Office demanding resignation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs because of alleged friendship for Japan, end of policy of nonresistance, and war with Japan.”
“September 28, 11 a m. My September 28, 10 a.m. Reliable report that the Minister for Foreign Affairs has been so beaten by students and cut with broken glass that he may not live. Presumed to be now with President Chiang. C. T. Wang ignored warning of danger and insisted on remaining at his duty.”