Office of the Historian

793.94/7995: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, June 24, 1936—6 p.m.
[Received June 24—9:25 a.m.]

139. Embassy’s 111, May 23, 11 a.m. The Military Attaché was informed today in conversation at the War Department that the movement of troops for the reenforcement of the North China Garrison has been completed and that the garrison now has a strength of slightly under 5,000 men of all branches of the army.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew