793.94/6338: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 29—12:35 a.m.]
485. Reuter from Canton, 28th:
“Southwest Political Council has despatched telegram further accusing Military Council of compromising with Japan as shown by recent truce in North China. Southwest leaders ask whether Military Council in replacing resistance with truce and withdrawing troops to Tangku and Tungchow, stopping supply of arms to volunteers and forbidding boycott activities had approval of the Central Executive Committee. If so these things not only constitute violation of resolutions of Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee but are also contrary to wishes of the people. If approval of Central Executive Committee was not obtained then that body should mete out severe punishment to the official organ or private individual who dared compromise with enemy and commit act of selling the country.”