Office of the Historian

793.94/1797: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, September 19, 1931—noon.
[Received September 19—5:58 a.m.]

600. My September 19, 2:30 p.m. [a.m.]14 Same source informs me that two train loads of Japanese soldiers arrived Yingkou this morning proceeding thence to Kowpangtze where they disarmed railway police and all others, occupying town. Japanese warship is reported to have arrived at Yingkou this morning. Communication from Mukden ceased at 3 a.m. at which time Japanese soldiers reported entered city.

Mayer, Military Attaché’s office,15 is proceeding Mukden to ascertain facts.

Please inform War and Navy. Repeated to commander in chief and Tokyo.

Johnson
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 1.↩
  2. Captain William Mayer, language officer of the Legation in China.↩