893.00/12412: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 15—7:05 a.m.]
687. Legation’s 624, July 26, noon. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has at last yielded to pressure from Nanking and the Japanese and left Kalgan yesterday to return to his former retreat in Shantung. The sudden changing of his movement is attributed largely to lack of funds and lack of support among northern leaders. The fact that Dolonor was retaken by Manchukuo forces on August 7th must likewise have influenced him. It is rumored that the Nanking Government promised him a large sum of money if he would leave Chahar.
The elimination of Feng should greatly facilitate the return to something like normal conditions in North China and may also dampen the ardor of the Cantonese faction which had given him moral support.