Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The Far East, Volume V

893.248/215: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Hong Kong (Southard)

Washington, March 22, 1941—4 p.m.

63. For Lieutenant Colonel Mayer¹⁵ from War Department.

Your 99, March 15, noon,¹⁶ one hundred American planes are being allotted by the British to China. War Department knows nothing of date of shipment or American pilots. Additional information will be furnished when available.

Sent to Hong Kong. Repeated to Chungking.

Welles

15. Military Attaché in China.
16. Not printed.