Office of the Historian

893.20/131: Telegram

The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, October 22, 1929—noon.
[Received 7:10 p.m.]

916. The following Kuo Wen press despatch dated Mukden, October 20, was published here today:

“General Chang Hsueh-liang held a military conference today attended by General Chang Chun and Mr. Chow Leong-kwang,2 representatives from Nanking, and some fifty officers of the northeastern frontier defense forces. The following decisions were reached at the meeting:

1.
To order the frontier troops to stop Russian incursions.
2.
To report to the National Government that on account of the border war northeastern troops will not participate in civil wars against the southeast and the northwest.
3.
To declare allegiance to the National Government.
4.
To request General Yen Hsi-shan to settle the controversy between General Chiang Kai-shek and Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.”

MacMurray
  1. Chou Lung-kwang, director of Asiatic Department of Chinese Foreign Office.↩