Office of the Historian

893.00/13976: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, February 18, 1937—noon.
[Received February 18—10:20 a.m.]

81. My 77, February 15, noon. National Government in a mandate issued February 17 restored to Chang Hsueh Liang his civic rights of [Page 27] which he had been deprived for 5 years by judgment of high court martial of the Military Affairs Commission on December 31, 1936. Question of restoration of former rank still unsettled.

Johnson