Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1932, The Far East, Volume IV

793.04/5700

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation⁸⁹

[Nanking,] December 29, 1932.

Reports of General Tang Yu-Lin from Jehol revealed the Japanese plan for occupation of Pei-Piao and other places in Jehol. The items of this plan are as follows:—

(1) The Japanese at Chao-Yang-Tze have been trying to bribe a few Chinese soldiers hoping to obtain from them confessions that they have kidnapped some Japanese, these confessions to be used as materials for future negotiations with China.

(2) Some Japanese soldiers were specially despatched to Nan-Nin and its vicinity attempting to provoke the Chinese patrols there in order to create incidents which will be taken as pretexts for the occupation of Pei-Piao.

(3) The Japanese have been trying to bribe ignorant Mongolians, asking them to lay claim to the land around the mining districts as their private property, so that the Japanese may use the protection of the rights of these Mongolians as a pretext for their occupation of Pei-Piao.

(4) The Japanese have recruited some three hundred young Chinese in the vicinity of Chao-Yang-Tze in Jehol and have transported them to Yi Hsien in preparation for the campaign against Pei-Piao.

89. Translation of telegram transmitted to the Department by the Chinese Legation, December 29, 1932.