893.01 Manchuria/1390: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 29—7:12 a.m.]
643. The following telegram has been received from Mukden:
“December 28, 11 a.m. A source recently attached to Japanese forces in Jehol confidentially stated: there is in Jehol one Japanese division and in Inner Mongolia one and a half Japanese divisions; [Page 450] their detail is being extended from December to next May and will be further extended in case of serious hostilities; troops have been ordered to be prepared for resumption of operations during the first half of January.”
By mail to Tokyo.