893.00/13843: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 29—9:50 a.m.]
644. 1. Service on the Lunghai Railway between Loyang and Sian will be restored today. Telegraph service to Sian has been restored.
2. Military Attaché reports a very heavy concentration of Government troops on the Lunghai. There was wild jubilation among these troops when news of Chiang Kai Shek’s release reached them.
3. From various sources it would appear that foreign lives in Shensi and Kansu are not now endangered.
4. Small group of radicals in Peiping universities have been attacked and their headquarters ransacked during the past few days by student sympathizers of Chiang Kai Shek. Authorities of universities concerned have taken situation in hand and it is believed that trouble between the two factions will now cease.
5. Reports are published almost daily of further defections in the ranks of the irregulars in Suiyuan and of dissension among the leaders of those forces. It is very doubtful whether any major operations will take place in Suiyuan in the near future.
By mail to Tokyo.