Office of the Historian

893.00/13079: Telegram

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

Peiping, May 11, 1935—11 a.m.
[Received May 11—2:45 a.m.]

192. Reference Legation’s 186, May 7, 10 a.m.42 Ringwalt43 reports that Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Yunnanfu on May 10th. He also reports that several thousand Reds are believed to be still in the mountains north of Wuting and that the majority have crossed the Yangtze River at various places above and below Tungan.

For the Minister:
Lockhart
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Arthur R. Ringwalt, Vice Consul at Yunnanfu.↩