Office of the Historian

793.94/7035: Telegram

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

Peiping, June 13, 1935—5 p.m.
[Received June 13—1:25 p.m.]

271. Legation is reliably informed that pamphlets have been distributed here this afternoon denouncing Chiang Kai-shek and advocating an independent state. Among the names mentioned in the pamphlet as sponsors of the movement are Tsao Ju-lin78 and Sun Chuan-fang.

Legation is also informed that Chahar official called today on Japanese Assistant Military Attaché to apologize for recent incident (Legation’s 268, June 13, noon) and was told that it was too late for apology and that military would decide what action should be taken in regard thereto.

Repeated to Nanking and Shanghai.

Johnson
  1. Minister of Communications at Peking until May 1919.↩