893.01 Manchuria/678: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, December 7, 1932—9
a.m.
[Received 9:10 a.m.]
[Received 9:10 a.m.]
1298. Following from American Consul General at Harbin:
“December 6, 4 p.m. Reliable newspaper sources report that the Japanese took Hailar yesterday, that yesterday two trains of insurgents arrived in Soviet territory at post 86, inhabitants probably disarmed, that the Soviet frontier guard there was reinforced at the same time and that the Chinese Eastern Railway has withdrawn 13 locomotives from Manchouli to Dauria probably fearing bombing.”
For the Minister:
Engert