893.00/15004
The Chargé in China (Vincent) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 6.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose a copy of a report51 on Sinkiang province contained in the China Information Committee’s Daily Bulletin no. 613. The Embassy has at present no means of checking on the accuracy of the statements made by Mr. Liang Han-chao but has forwarded a copy of the report to Mr. Clubb, Consul at Tihwa, for comment.
With regard to the final paragraph of the report in which Mr. Liang states that there remained in Sinkiang about 300 Russians of the Soviet Union who served as instructors in the Chinese army, advisors in animal husbandry and in other agricultural and economic enterprises, an informed official of the Chinese Government told me some days ago that Mr. Liang’s statement could not be taken as indication that the 3,000 or more Soviet soldiers, nominally under the command of General Sheng Shih-tsai, had been withdrawn from the province. Those troops are concentrated largely at Hami, and the Chinese Government has no recent information which would indicate that they have been withdrawn.
Respectfully yours,
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