Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270
Memorandum by Colonel J. Hart Caughey to the Committee of Three
Following is Trusum No. 17, dated 31 January 1946:
“The Chihfeng, Jehol, situation has now clarified and it is confirmed by the field team there that the pacification troops (Communist) have entirely withdrawn from all areas which they occupied after 2400 hours 13 January. They had taken over certain villages east of the town upon this withdrawal of the Russian garrison on 23 January, but they had been in Chihfeng and vicinity ever since August 1945. The strength of the pacification corps in Chihfeng city is now reported as 800 (a field team was dispatched from Peiping to Chengte, Jehol Province, on 31 January). [”]
[Here follows report of activities of certain other truce teams.]