393.11/1321: Telegram
The Consul General at Hankow (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:30 p.m.]
113. My 111, November 8, 1 p.m. The following telegram has been sent to the Legation:
“November 12, noon. My November 8, 1 p.m.
General Ho Ying-chin has replied that there is no suitable landing field at Kwangchow but that he has sent an urgent telegram to military authorities to despatch troops for the protection of the foreigners and military authorities at Kanchow ordering them to exert their efforts in the protection of foreign residents.
Troops of 13th Division are being sent today to Hwangan, Hupeh. This is the place to which Reverend Nelson is said to have been taken by bandits.
Repeated to Department and Shanghai.”