Office of the Historian

793.94/7041: Telegram

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

Nanking, June 14, 1935—5 p.m.
[Received June 14—10:50 a.m.]

159. I am confidentially informed by head of a government ministry that Chiang Kai-shek will probably come to Nanking and may arrive tomorrow. Ho Ying-chin, he states, did not reach Nanking until this afternoon, having stopped over at Paotingfu. He states further that the situation looks a little better today than yesterday but no matter what turn events may take China has already done everything possible to accommodate the Japanese and can do no more.

For the Minister:
Atcheson