893.00/14790: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 11—7:30 p.m.]
381. Peiping’s telegram of September 4, to Chungking37 regarding alleged Communist demands. In a conversation with officers of the Embassy on September 7, Chou En-lai, Communist liaison agent in Chungking, disclaimed knowledge of the presentation by the Chinese Communists of demands to Chiang Kai-shek. He asserted that there has been no significant change in Kuomintang-Communist relations in recent months, adding that there have been no negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communists during the past 2 months and that he himself has not seen the Generalissimo since [the outbreak of] the Russo-German war. He declared that the National Government has not supplied [the] Communists with funds for 8 months and with supplies for about 2½ years. Full report will follow by despatch.37
Sent to Department, repeated to Peiping.