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The Military Attaché in China (Mayer) to the War Department 53
[Extract]
Chungking, October 21,
1941.
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The official Chinese view is that the Japanese will begin an offensive in Eastern Siberia within two weeks. It should be noted that several months before the beginning of the Russo-German war, the Chinese predicted the date it would start, and missed it by only a few days.
In Indo-China the Japanese are laying in supplies for 100,000 troops, but the Chinese report of large additional troop movements into Indo-China has not been confirmed. It is estimated that there are not more than 40,000 there at present.
Mayer
- Received at the War Department October 23, 1941, 4:20 p.m.; paraphrase received in Department of State on October 25. Noted by the Secretary of State.↩