793.94/7458: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, November 30, 1935—11
a.m.
[Received November 30—6:24 a.m.]
[Received November 30—6:24 a.m.]
119. My 116, November 29, 5 p.m.
- 1.
- An officer of the Embassy was informed by a responsible official of the Foreign Office this morning that in addition to protesting against Japanese military occupation of certain North China railway stations, the Foreign Office yesterday also lodged with the Japanese Embassy here a written protest against Japanese instigation of the so-called autonomy movement in the North. The official stated that this protest cited special instances of Japanese instigation, one being the visit to Paotingfu of three Japanese Army officers who, it is claimed, insisted upon talking with Shang Chen although Shang was ill in hospital, told him that both Sung Che-yuan and Han Fu-chu had agreed to the establishment of an autonomous five province regime and said that Shang was the only Chinese leader concerned who was withholding his cooperation from the scheme, these statements being entirely false.
- 2.
- Repeated to Department, Peiping and Tokyo.
Peck