793.94/11578: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 11—7:30 a.m.]
28. Your 1031, December 10, 11 p.m.1a Copy of message of International Committee has been handed to General Chang Chun and to Minister of Foreign Affairs with a statement that I am transmitting this without commitment in any sense. For your confidential information, this message, I feel, has arrived too late to accomplish any good. It is doubtful whether Chinese here would have accepted it in any case because it meant surrender of city. Humanitarian interests involved, however, are, I think, appreciated and highly commended.
Sent to Nanking, Peiping, Shanghai. Peiping repeat to Tokyo.
- Reference is evidently to No. 1031 from the Second Secretary of Embassy in China, which was sent also to Hankow.↩