Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270

Memorandum by General Chou En-lai to General Marshall

MM 042
Nanking, 19 June 1946.

Dear General Marshall: For your reference, on June 9, two Nationalist regiments in North Liaoning laid terrible onslaught on Faku (123°13′, 42°16′) and completely occupied that city in the afternoon of the same date. Separate memo on this subject is being sent to General Hsu Yung-chang, requesting that the Government military authority in Manchuria be instructed to issue order for the evacuation of that city, so as to follow the Lafa example, and to discharge the responsibility.25

[Signature in Chinese]
(
Chou En-lai
)
  1. General Marshall reported this message in telegram No. 941, June 20, to Mr. Robertson at Peiping and asked: “Have you a report of the alleged attack against Faku? Do you think the proposed evacuation could be effected?↩