Office of the Historian

740.0011 P. W./388

The Acting Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

Washington, July 31, 1941.

Memorandum for the President

Reference your memorandum of July 29, 1941 in regard to reports of withdrawals of Japanese troops and planes from certain occupied places in China.

The messages to which you refer were repeated to the Embassy at Chungking via naval radio by the sending officers. We have brought these reports orally to the attention of the Chinese Ambassador here and are today conveying to Ambassador Gauss by telegraph32 the suggestion that he and the Naval and Military Attachés inform appropriate Chinese officials at Chungking of the reports in question.33

Sumner Welles
  1. Telegram No. 175, August 1, 5 p.m., not printed.↩
  2. None printed; they came from Foochow, Hong Kong, Canton, and Peiping.↩