740.0011 Pacific War/1887: Telegram

The Military Mission in China to the War Department 37

No. 241. On December 23rd, at a preliminary allied conference Chiang Kai Shek suggested that a continuing military council be inaugurated. The council was informally constituted with Ho Ying Chin38 and the Chiefs of the U. S. and British Military Missions designated by the conferees as representatives. It should be brought to the attention of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Staff that this Chungking council meets once a week and more often if necessary and is beginning to furnish excellent ways of investigating preliminary problems and of forming recommendations for the governments concerned or for coming to an understanding for united action.

Representative of the problems considered are logistical considerations of potential military action, problems which consider railway, signal and road communications between India, China and Burma and retransfers of lend-lease materials between Great Britain and China.

Magruder
  1. Original telegram received by the War Department February 2, 3:39 p.m., and paraphrase transmitted to the Department of State; noted by the Secretary of State.
  2. Chief of Chinese General Staff and Minister of War.