Office of the Historian

793.94/11385: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Hankow, December 1, 1937—10 a.m.
[Received December 1—7 a.m.]

9. German Ambassador63 left Hankow this morning accompanied by the Counsellor of Embassy for Kiukiang and Kuling on customs cruiser loaned by the Chinese Government. No information can be obtained regarding his mission but the natural inference is that he bears to General Chiang some sort of peace proposal from the Japanese.

Repeated to Nanking, Peiping, Shanghai. Peiping repeat to Tokyo.

Johnson
  1. Oskar Trautmann.↩