393.1115/3418: Telegram
The Consul General at Hankow (Josselyn) to the Secretary of State
Hankow, July 19, 1938—3
p.m.
[Received July 19—12:10 p.m.]
[Received July 19—12:10 p.m.]
Shanghai’s 1003, July 18, 6 p.m. I talked by telephone this morning [afternoon] with Allgood of Kuling American school at Kuling and informed him of substance of Shanghai’s July 18, 6 p.m. He states that Americans in Kuling do not intend to leave and in fact most of them cannot do so; that all is quiet at Kuling at present; that there are large numbers of Chinese refugees, particularly women, at Kuling.
Repeated to Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo.
Josselyn