793.94119/643: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:35 p.m.]
546. A former high official of the Chinese Central Government has informed this office confidentially that quite recently a leading Japanese official proceeded secretly to Hong Kong where he offered an eight-point peace program to the Chinese Central Government. The [Page 361] only point known to our informant was an undertaking to withdraw all Japanese troops from south of the Great Wall. He said previous overtures had never gone beyond offers to withdraw troops from south of the Yellow River, but that the Chinese Central Government is still holding out for withdrawal from Manchuria also.
Repeated to Chungking and Peiping. Code text to Tokyo.