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On June 7. 1918, the Consul at Nanking sent a second 
cablegram, reading as follows: 
Yours June fifth. Proceeding 
witlR Chinese up river to search for 
Meyer. Steamer captain states Meyer 
normal but complained of headache. 
Have telegraphed Legation and re- 
quested Swingle cone to Nanking to 
* assist in search. 
On June 9, 191O, the Consul cabled again: 
Found Meyer's body thirty miles 
above Wuhu. 
Under date of June 12, I918, the Consul at Nanking made the 
follov/ing report:-. ". 
The Secretary of State, 
V/ashington. 
Sir: 
I have the honor to enclose herewith a 
confirmation of my telegram of the 9"^^ inst., 
informing. you that I had recovered the body 
of Frank N. Meyer, Explorer for the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, who disappeared from 
the Japanese vessel S. S. Feng Yang Maru, 
en route ffom Hankow to Shanghai, as reported 
to you in my cable of the 4th inst. and in my 
despatch No. 291, of the same date. 
Upon receipt of the Department's telegram 
of the 5th of June, instructing me to spare no 
effort in ascertaining Mr. Meyer's wteeabouts, 
I proceeded to Wuhu, which is about sixty miles 
above Nanking on the Yangtze River, intending 
to organize a niiinber of small search parties 
of Chinese boatmen. T reached Wuhu at ten 
o'clock on Friday evening, the 7th inst., and 
went to the home of the representative of the 
Standard Oil Company of Nev/ York, by whom I 
had been invited to spend the night there. 
V/ith me was an interpreter, who was also in- 
vited to spend the night at the home of the 
Standard Oil CO's representative, which was 
fortunate, for it was tl^ere that the servants 
September PI, 191B, 
