Office of the Historian

793.94/6832: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, January 22, 1935—4 p.m.
[Received January 22—7:26 a.m.]

32. My 30, January 19, 1 p.m. The Legation is reliably informed that the question is being peacefully settled by the withdrawal of the Chinese forces concerned in accordance with the wishes of the Japanese military. The Chinese authorities are apparently endeavoring to minimize the importance in order to avoid criticism. As a result the de facto border of “Manchukuo” now seems definitely to be that part of the Great Wall which runs from south to north in southeast Chahar Province.

Gauss