793.94/8860: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Caldwell) to the Secretary of State
Tientsin, July 20, 1937—11
a.m.
[Received July 20—7:35 a.m.]
[Received July 20—7:35 a.m.]
Six thousand Japanese troops with twenty-four 75-millimeter field pieces and miscellaneous equipment including a number of machine guns and trench mortars arrived here from Manchuria during the past 2 days; about 3,000 of them left here last night on foot by the Peiping Highway. Unconfirmed report is that large number of Japanese troops will land at Tangku within a few days.
Japanese military authorities have imposed censorship of mails at the central post office here since July 18th.
Caldwell