Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1931, The Far East, Volume III

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The Chinese Legation to the Department of State⁹⁵

The Manchurian situation is becoming more critical and grave every day. According to reports from Minister Tsiang at Tokyo, Japanese troops after having occupied Tsitsihar now plan to march northward to take Manchouli and southward to take Jehol. The apparent conciliatory attitude of Japanese diplomacy is to gain time for Japan’s military operation. The Fourth Congress of the Kuomintang has adopted a Resolution containing the following points: (1) To call the attention of every nation to its obligations to international agreements, especially with the anticipation that the United States will assume the principal role in invoking the Briand-Kellogg Anti-War Pact and the Nine Power Treaty, (2) to reorganize the Government and to delegate to it the full and unqualified power so as to expose the ulterior motive of Japan in spreading false propaganda that the Chinese Government does not command the confidence of the Chinese people.

Washington , November 25, 1931.

95. Substance of telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking, dated November 24, 1931, handed by the First Secretary of the Chinese Legation to Mr. Ransford S. Miller of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs on November 25, 1931.