793.94/9250: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Peiping, August 9, 1937—3
p.m.]
[Received August 9—6 a.m.]
[Received August 9—6 a.m.]
406. Embassy’s 402, August 8, 6 p.m.
- 1.
- No incident has occurred in Peiping as a result of the entry yesterday of Japanese troops.
- 2.
- The two branch telegraph offices in Peiping now under [of the] Chinese telegraph administration were visited this morning, as was the head office yesterday, by five Japanese in plain clothes who removed essential instruments, rendering the sending of message impossible.
- 3.
- Chang Tzu Chung resigned at some time during the past few days from his remaining posts; namely, Acting Mayor of Peiping and Acting Hopei-Chahar Pacification Commissioner. A new mayor has not yet been appointed. A Secretary of the Japanese Embassy describes the Hopei-Chahar Political Council as being of no practical importance as affairs in Peiping and Tientsin are directed by the Maintenance Committees and as affairs outside those two cities are directed by local officials as best they can.
- 4.
- Police have been instructed to inform all schools to cease instructions in the principles of the Kuomintang and the use of books [Page 362] of that character. Police are visiting bookstores in western part of city today instructing them what kinds of books they must not sell.
Repeated to Nanking, Shanghai, Tokyo. Shanghai repeat to Tokyo.
Lockhart