Office of the Historian

793.94/5393: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, July 1, 1932—5 p.m.
[Received July 1—7:12 a.m.]

180. The best information which our Military Attaché has been able to compile indicates that there are about 44,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. In North China aside from Manchuria the Japanese troops are reported to be 2,000. The War Office admitted to the Military Attaché today that troops in North China are to be increased in the near future. The strength of this increase is still secret.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew