793.94/9037a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) at Peiping
Washington, July
28, 1937—3 p.m.
141. Did a Japanese liaison officer inform Senior Commandant on or about July 27 that the Japanese intended to launch an attack on Chinese forces both within and without Peiping?1
Hull
- The Embassy’s telegram No. 325, July 29, 2 p.m., replied: “The Senior Commandant at no time received from a Japanese liaison officer information” to this effect. “The nearest approach to that information is that contained in paragraphs 4 and 5 of my 302 of July 27, 1 p.m.” (793.94/9063)↩