793.94/7111: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 24—2:35 p.m.]
309. Negotiations over the Chahar situation began here last night between Chin Teh-chun together with Cheng Keh, former student in Japan friendly to the Anfu clique, and Doihara and Matsui. Chin telegraphed to Nanking yesterday requesting that he be relieved from the post of acting chairman of Chahar.
American news correspondent who returned from Kalgan yesterday states that opinion in Kalgan is that all of Sung Che-yuan’s troops will be moved from Chahar when a suitable place is found that these troops being well disciplined will not cause trouble but that some 7,000 irregulars are regarded with apprehension. He states that the Japanese have built an airfield at Kalgan and are behaving toward Chinese officials with effrontery.
Wang Keh-min arrived at Peiping afternoon June 23 to assume the position of acting chairman of the Peiping Political Affairs Readjustment Committee and met Doihara this morning. According to Chinese newspapermen the National Government has placed a ban on publication of a report that Han Fu-chu submitted his resignation June 22. As it is understood that Han is uncertain about what the Japanese want of him and uncertain with regard to his standing with the National Government submission of resignation might be the result either of Japanese pressure or of his desire for the National Government to clarify its attitude towards him.