Office of the Historian

861.77 Chinese Eastern/1297: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, February 27, 1934—noon.
[Received February 27—2:22 a.m.]

101. The following telegram has been received from the Consul General at Harbin.

“February 26, 4 p.m. Engineer Kalina and other five railway prisoners released on February 24th, and expected soon to go to Russia. Their places on railway has been taken by other Soviet Russians. Presumed that Tokyo conference will be resumed and that Soviet Russia will sell railway thereby commencing end of Russian influence in North Manchuria.[”]

Johnson