793.94/6978: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 28—11:43 a.m.]
223. Legation’s 211, May 25 [23], noon. Yin Ju-keng, administrative inspector for the Miyün-Chihsien area in a press interview yesterday stated that the bandits in the Tsunhua region under Sun Yung-chin have been completely suppressed by the combined operations of Japanese troops and by the special police and that the Japanese have begun to withdraw to points along the Wall. He was unable to confirm the report that Sun Yung-chin had been killed.
It is the consensus of opinion in North China that the Japanese incursion is purely a local movement with bandit suppression as object and that it has no relation to the general Sino-Japanese situation or to the murders referred to in the Legation’s 212, May 23, 2 p.m.
Repeated to Nanking.