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Memorandum by Captain Roscoe E. Schuirmann of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Following information has been received from Naval Attaché Chungking— It is reported that the brother of the Governor of Sinkiang who recently visited Chungking and negotiated with Chiang Kai-shek was assassinated at Urumchi on July 5th. If this is true it may indicate a serious setback to recently improved relations.17

R. E. Schuirmann
  1. Marginal notation by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck): “And it might indicate any one of several other things. S. K. H.”