893.00/7–2848: Telegram
The Consul General at Mukden (Ward) to the Secretary of State
Mukden, July 28,
1948—10 a. m.
[Received July 28—3:47 a. m.]
[Received July 28—3:47 a. m.]
318. My telegram 316 yesterday. Students continued parade through city until 1630 hours, without serious incident and with no anti-foreign expression. Marchers orderly but evidenced genuine feeling. Police vicinity demonstrators did not bear arms.
All non-military rail traffic Mukden area halted yesterday morning by strike, workers demanded food allowance equal that railway workers in intramural China and immediate payment wages in arrears, No violence. Demands accepted early today and traffic resumed.
Sent Nanking 399; repeated Department 318.
Ward