Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

General Marshall to Colonel Paul R. M. Miller24

[Chungking,] 8 February 1946.

166. Information in Chungking indicates that General Tseng Sheng is Commander of Communist-led forces in the Canton area. He is supposedly located on Tapeng Peninsula. Your team should proceed to the Tapeng Peninsula area and attempt contact with General Tseng Sheng whose title is Commander of the Communist-led Kwan[g]tung East River Detachment. Send report direct to the Executive Headquarters as to conditions found in that area. Tapeng Peninsula is situated between the Bias and the Mirs Bays.

To Haskell:25 Communists here indicate that they would like to send signal personnel from Peiping to Canton to operate radio station taken there by the Communists. Check this with Communists in Executive Headquarters and if report is correct see that their personnel are sent to Canton.

  1. Colonel Miller was American member and chairman of the Executive Headquarters’ Canton Liaison Group, Canton, Kwangtung.↩
  2. Information copy sent by Brigadier General Byroade to his Chief of Staff in Executive Headquarters at Peiping, Colonel L. W. Haskell.↩