793.94/8902: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, July 21, 1937—3
p.m.
[Received July 21—9:40 a.m.]
[Received July 21—9:40 a.m.]
312. Donald has telephoned that Sung Che Yuan has asked the Chinese to retain at Paoting the four divisions now there and not to send them further at present [because he has] private hope of effecting a local settlement with the Japanese even yet. Donald quoted a report that the Japanese had ceased firing after firing some 450 shots killing only a few Chinese. (Area concerned presumably is near Peiping.)
Sent to the Department and Peiping.
Peck