793.94/7741: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 24—6:47 a.m.]
87. Embassy’s 79, February 20, 5 p.m. Commander of the Japanese North China Garrison Tada informed Chinese newspapermen February 23 that (1), unless the Eastern Hopei anti-Communist autonomous government, whose objects are autonomy and defense against Communism, and the Hopei-Chahar Political Council, which was organized by the National Government, “reached the same water level, they could not flow together”; (2), the Japanese Government has not yet replied to his request, which was made on the suggestion of Sung Che Yuan, that it recommend (additional) Japanese for appointment as advisers to the Hopei-Chahar Political Council, and [Page 67] (3), the Kwantung army, in whose hands is the Northern Chahar affair, had reached an agreement with the chairman of Chahar by which the area (extending across Chahar north of the Great Wall from Jehol to Suiyuan) taken by Li Shou Hsin should be policed by Li’s forces organized into a Mongolian special police.
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