793.94/5923: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 24—6:05 a.m.]
180. Following from American Military Attaché now at Cheng-teh, Jehol dated 23:
“General Tang Yu-lin states Japanese troops, including infantry, [Page 204] artillery, tanks, armored trains, armored motor cars and aircraft launched an attack February 21 in the direction Peipiao-Chaoyang; that Japanese total concentration on Chinchow front about 40,000 including about 10,000 Manchukuo troops; that Japanese planes bombed Chaoyang and adjacent villages for last 3 days; that 2,000 of Lei’s23 troops formerly defending Peipiao were forced to withdraw to Chaoyang where Lei’s troops now defending. He expects Japanese or Manchukuo troops to attack Kailu and from there sweeping westwards shortly. Manchukuo troops about half Japanese; no Japanese planes have appeared over Chengteh recently.”
Please inform War Department.
- Possibly Li Fang-ting.↩