793.94/6242: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 1—9:20 a.m.]
Two Chinese armored trains have now proceeded as far as Peitaiho and passenger traffic to that place and to Chinwangtao will probably be restored today or tomorrow. Reliable local authority reports that Japanese military have approached railway authorities with the intimation that restoration of passenger and freight traffic to Shanhaikwan would be welcomed.
Five trains of Chinese troops passed through Tientsin moving westward from the Lwanchow area yesterday and, according to railway authorities, are destined to points on the Peiping-Hankow Railway. This represents the first large movement of Chinese troops away from the Lwanchow area and is further evidence tending to confirm that the recent withdrawal of Manchukuo and/or Japanese forces entirely from the Lwan River was by arrangement.