893.00/7–1147: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:45 p.m.]
1681. Wang Yun-sheng, editor-in-chief Ta Kung Pao, in course of general conversation with Chase26 yesterday which touched on Manchuria, said that his paper’s Mukden representative recently visited Ssupingkai and made special efforts to check basis for allegation of Russian and Russian-organized-Korean aid to Communist armies in northeast. After careful investigations and interviewing of captured Communists the representative could find no evidence that Russians had participated in Communist operations (in technical capacities) or otherwise assisted them, “though he did find abundant proof that Communists had captured from Nationalists and effectively employed much American equipment”. He found Koreans and Japs among prisoners, but only few and found no grounds for concluding that they were organized, trained or equipped by Russians.
Wang said that paper’s representative did establish one positive fact, namely that firepower used by Communists in attacking Ssupingkai was greater than ever employed by them elsewhere in China. Wang felt, however, that this could not be taken as proof of [overt] Soviet aid and may well merely mean that Communists were using large supplies accumulated from other sources (abandoned by Japs and captured from Nationalists).
Sent Nanking as 1229, repeated Dept as 1681, Mukden as 102, Dairen as 27, Changchun as 53, and Moscow as 7.
- Augustus S. Chase, Consul at Shanghai.↩