793.94/2200: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 18—3:20 p.m.]
218. Drummond has handed me for communication to you the following message from the Japanese Government dated October 14, which has been circulated to the members of the Council:
“Regarding the movement of Japanese troops at Mukden I have the honor to inform you that according to an official telegram from Tokyo, maintenance of order by the Chinese having become increasingly effective, the military authorities have decided to hand over the policing of the Chinese quarters to the Chinese gendarmes and police. Consequently the headquarters staff of the Forty-third Infantry Regiment which was quartered in the open town has been transferred to the former premises of the South Manchuria Railway Hospital inside the zone and the headquarters staff of the Seventy-eighth Regiment removed from the Chinese town to the arsenal outside the Chinese town. Eighteen hundred men have [been?] withdrawn and brought back either outside the Chinese town or inside the zone. There are at present only about 400 men left in the Chinese town and in the open town and 250 men in the industrial quarters.
The cruiser Tokiwa reached Shanghai on October 10th and re-enforcements of 230 men were sent to the naval barracks October 14. I should be obliged if you would inform my colleagues on the Council of the above. Yoshizawa.”