793.94/7432: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 26—9:10 a.m.]
111. 1. According to information received from the Foreign Office the Chinese Government, following a special meeting of the Executive Yuan today, has (1) ordered local authorities in the North to arrest Yin Ju-keng as a rebel, (2) abolished the Peiping Branch Military Council, (3) appointed Ho Ying-chin as its resident representative in Peiping, and (4) Sung Che-yuan as Pacification Commissioner for Hopei and Chahar. The warrant for Yin’s arrest, it is stated, will be issued tomorrow morning.
2. Last three steps have the appearance of being a form of compliance with the suggestion made to Chiang by the Japanese as reported in my [103,] November 22, 10 a.m.,53 paragraph 2, first sentence.
3. Repeated to Department and Peiping.