Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East: China, Volume IX

393.1115/5–2549: Telegram

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

Shanghai, May 25, 1949.
[Received May 25—5:19 a. m.]

1822. Initial canvass of considerable proportion of local American organizations (those we have been able contact thus far) reveals no casualties or serious incidents involving Americans as result events past 24 hours.⁸⁰ Nearly all Americans staying in homes mostly in southwest sections of city (ex-French concession) which they generally report quiet now though the scene of heavy firing last night. Organizations thus far contacted and reporting no known casualties to their American staff comprise:

Shanghai Power Co., Stanvac Oil Co., Chinese General Edison Co., National City Bank, Chase Bank, Franklin and Bryan, John S. Potter Real Estate, Andersen, Meyer and Co., Shanghai Evening Post Mercury, Shanghai Telephone Co., Yee Tsoong Tobacco Co., Tobacco Products Co., American School, Texas Co., American Club, American President Lines, Northwest Airlines, A. Mfm Hennigson, China Weekly Review, American Church Mission, both Northern and Southern Presbyterian Missions, Southern Baptist Mission, American Bible Society, Seventh Day Adventists, American Advisory Committee, Chinese and Foreign YMCA’s. Department may wish inform parent organizations.

Sent Department 1822, repeated Nanking 995, OffEmb Canton 536.

Cabot

80. Chinese Communists were occupying the city.