793.94/7920: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, May 28,
1936—noon.
[Received May 28—6:24 a.m.]
[Received May 28—6:24 a.m.]
264. Reference paragraph 1 of Embassy’s 259, May 25, noon.
- 1.
- According to information supplied by a reliable visitor to Fengtai, which is the junction of the three important railways of North China, the Japanese have taken over two pieces of property near the railway station at Fengtai without payment to the owners, are occupying some brick buildings about 650 feet east of the station, are making additions to them which approximately quadruple their capacity, and are constructing at a point some 650 feet south of the station some buildings on a plot of land which they have enclosed in barbed wire and which is about 20 acres in extent.
- 2.
- This informant also visited Changsintien, the first station south of Fengtai on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, and states that the Japanese have occupied a piece of ground about 12 or 13 acres in extent and have begun the erection of buildings thereon.
By mail to Tokyo.
Johnson