893.01 Manchuria/752: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Edge) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 10—1:45 p.m.]
15. The Japanese Embassy here confirmed to various newspapermen who inquired the fact that Manchukuo had set up a central mission for Europe in Paris at the Hotel Baltimore on the Avenue Kleber. General Tingue59 a Manchu who is now visiting in London for 10 days will be nominally in charge of the mission until February when he will return to Harbin. He will have a large staff including both American and French publicity agents chief among whom will be Bronson Rea an American citizen.
The purpose of the mission will be to endeavor to obtain diplomatic recognition for Manchukuo and financial assistance. This mission will be a center for Manchukuo propaganda in the European press.
- Gen. Ting Shih-yuan.↩