893.01 Inner Mongolia/92: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lochhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 8—7:40 a.m.]
592. Following from Mukden:
“December 7, 6 p.m. Concordia Society today made following [statement?] through its [president?] Premier Chang [of Manchoukuo].
‘In order to give concrete expression to its wholehearted spiritual support of the Inner Mongolia volunteer army which has taken up arms to destroy bandit Communism, this society, which has declared itself against Communism, had decided to campaign far and wide among Japanese and Manchurians for donations to aid the said army’.
“An acquaintance reported seeing at Mukden station last week special tram of 19 cars of wounded Japanese, enroute presumably to the local base hospital, adding that 100 severely wounded are being treated in the South Manchuria Railway Hospital and that Japanese wounded arrive daily in great numbers evidently from Suiyuan front.”
Report on “Manchukuo Concordia Society” was made in Mukden’s despatch No. 304, of July 28, copies of which were sent directly to the Department.81
Nanking informed.
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