Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

Lieutenant General Alvan C. Gillem, Jr.,18 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Shanghai, 13 April 1946.

28684. 1. Receipt of 8433619 is acknowledged.

2. Your assumption that provisions of paragraph 4e 2741220 apply to all US Forces China is correct.

3. Arrangements for operations of Chinese manned War Shipping Administration ships presently under army control are included in our inactivation plans. Control of these ships will continue to be vested in SCALS (Shipping Control Authority Liberty Ships) which in a US Army agency assigned to the China service command (redesignated from the Shanghai port command). (Commander, Seventh Fleet, has seen this message and concurs.)

  1. Acting Commanding General, U.S. Forces, China Theater, during the absence of General Wedemeyer.↩
  2. Supra.↩
  3. April 3, p. 862.↩