761.93/5–1547
The Consul General at Dairen (Benninghoff) to the Ambassador in China (Stuart)75
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Consulate General’s telegrams Nos. 55 and 58 to the Department dated April 5 and April 8, 1947, which presumably were repeated to the Embassy, concerning the dissolution of the “Port Arthur–Dairen United Political Administration” and the formation of the “Kwantung Government” at Port Arthur, and to submit further observations in that regard.
Summary. At a meeting at Port Arthur on April 3–4, the former “Port Arthur-Dairen United Political Administration” at Dairen was dissolved, and replaced by the Kwantung Government” at Port Arthur. This arrangement was apparently devised by the Soviets to remove from Dairen, scheduled to be controlled by Nanking, the central administrative organ of the Port Arthur Naval Base Area. [Page 521] The result, if accepted by Nanking, will be that the Russians and Chinese Communists will continue to be in effective control of the Area except for the city of Dairen.
[Here follows detailed report.]
Respectfully yours,
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Consul General in his despatch No. 86, May 15; received July 17.↩