Office of the Historian

893.00/13841: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, December 28, 1936—noon.
[Received December 28—7 a.m.]

641. My 633, December 23, noon. Colonel Stilwell returned to Peiping this morning and reports that the consensus of opinion in Loyang is that the release of Chiang Kai-shek practically ends the possibility of trouble in Shensi and that in his opinion there is no present need for the evacuation of Americans from that province.

Nanking informed.

Lockhart