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The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Chinese Legation1
The Chinese Consul-General at Khabarovsk, U.S.S.R., reported by wire to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as follows:
The Japanese have occupied Hulin. General Li Tu and General Wang Teh-Lin, with a train of more than three thousand troops, have retreated into Soviet territory.
The rumor that General Ting Chao has surrendered to the Japanese has no foundation in fact.
The rumor that the commanding officers of Japan and China have entered into direct negotiation for a settlement of the Shanhaikwan affair is again Japanese propaganda, attempting to create the impression that they are willing to localize the affair in order that the world may excuse her from her militaristic activities at Shanhaikwan. (The Ministry of Foreign xlffairs at Nanking, with the concurrence of Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, [Page 88] had announced the principle on January 10 that the Shanhaikwan affair was only one aspect of a threefold problem, totally different from the Shanghai affair, and could not be locally settled.)
- Translation of telegram transmitted to the Department by the Chinese Legation on January 16, 1933.↩