Office of the Historian

893.248/191: Telegram

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

Chungking, December 28, 1940—noon.
[Received December 28—9:33 a.m.]

640. My 563, November 7, 11 a.m., Russian aid to China. According to reliable sources, the Chinese Government has received some new type of manufactured pursuit planes known as the “E–17”; the number of such planes received was not divulged. The same sources revealed that Russian volunteers decided not to accompany the new craft but that they are being piloted by Chinese pilots.

Johnson