Office of the Historian

793.94/3340: Telegram

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

[Paraphrase]
Peiping, December 29, 1931—3 p.m.
[Received December 29—6:17 a.m.]

1146. The Military Attaché at Chinchow telegraphs that the railway company has been ordered by the Chinese military authorities to assemble 6 locomotives and 150 cars at Chinchow, and it is his opinion that the Chinese troops are on the point of withdrawing within the Great Wall.9

Repeated to Tokyo.

Johnson
  1. For decision to withdraw, see telegram No. 1148, December 29, 1931, 10 a.m., from the Minister in China, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 75.↩