793.94/7330: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, October 30, 1935—3
p.m.
[Received October 30—2:20 p.m.]
[Received October 30—2:20 p.m.]
40. My 39, October 29, 4 p.m.
- 1.
- Among prominent leaders who have recently come to Nanking are Chiang Kai-shek; Chang Hsueh-liang; Yen Hsi-shan; Chang Chun, Chairman of Hupeh Province, and Shao Li-tze, Provincial Chairman of Shensi.
- 2.
- Press despatches from Tientsin October 29 state that the Japanese Consul General there has written the Chinese local authorities alleging non-fulfillment of Chinese promises to suppress anti-Japanese and anti-”Manchukuo” organizations and reiterating Japanese demands for suppression and that the Japanese military have issued lengthy public statement in the same vein.
- 3.
- Press despatches report that on the afternoon of October 28 (the moment Wang Ching-wei was telling me that the nature of the new Japanese policy toward China was unknown to the Chinese Government) the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs was dictating a “three-point program” to the Chinese Ambassador in Tokyo involving a genuine effort by the Chinese Government to improve relations and cooperation between [with?] Japan and “Manchukuo” in the economic development of North China and opposition to the Communists.
- 4.
- Appearances indicate that the present assemblage in Nanking will discuss whether the time has come to modify the policy of conciliation of Japan or to extend it to cooperation with “Manchukuo” with special reference to North China problems.
Repeated to Peiping and mailed to Shanghai for the Ambassador.
Peck