793.94/17037: Telegram
The Consul at Tsingtao (Meyer) to the Secretary of State
Tsingtao, December
1, 1941—11 a.m.
[Received December 3—6:27 a.m.]
[Received December 3—6:27 a.m.]
During the past 10 days an average of about three Japanese transports have left Tsingtao daily loaded with troops. These troops were in summer uniforms and are believed to have been withdrawn from areas in the Yangtze valley north of the river as Japanese troops in Shantung have been in winter uniforms for some time. Reliable information as to numbers and destination is not available here but it may be deduced from the above that they are southward bound.
Sent to Peiping. Repeated to the Department and Chungking.
Meyer