Office of the Historian

793.94/2956: Telegram

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

Peiping, November 30, 1931—3 p.m.
[Received November 30—7:20 a.m.]

1025. 1. Legation is reliably informed that Marshal Chang informed the Japanese that subject to approval by Nanking, he was willing withdraw his troops to Shanhaikwan provided the Japanese would retire to Mukden. It would appear, however, that Japanese withdrawal had already begun prior to the Marshal’s stating [statement].

2. Yesterday a bomb exploded in the residence of the Japanese Naval Attachés at Peiping, outside the Legation Quarter. Investigation is proceeding.

Repeated to Nanking.

[For the Minister:]
Perkins