Office of the Historian

793.94/9159: Telegram

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

Nanking, August 3, 1937—4 p.m.
[Received August 4—2:15 a.m.]

362. Our 358, August 3, noon.36

1. We learn from reliable source that during Han Fu Chu’s37 visit to Nanking he gave National Government satisfactory assurances of his determination to resist any Japanese military activity in Central China and to cooperate fully with Central Government troops. According to this source, he promised the Generalissimo that he would oppose by force any incursion of Japanese troops into the province or the landing of Japanese naval parties at Tsingtao.

Sent to the Department, Tokyo. Peiping, Tsingtao and Tsinanfu being informed. Code text to Shanghai.

Johnson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Chairman of Shantung Provincial Government.↩