Office of the Historian

793.94/2981

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation94

[Nanking,] November 24, 1931.

Lately Japanese have been intensely circulating news that the Chinese troops at Chinchow will attack the Japanese troops and Chang Hsueh-Liang will declare war. Japan’s intention is to launch immediate attack upon Chinchow. According to railway reports Japanese gunboat Kuoa arrived 23rd declaring to protect wireless station but evidently to help attack Chinchow.

  1. Copy of telegram handed by the First Secretary of the Chinese Legation to Mr. Hansford S. Miller of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs on November 25, 1931.↩