893.154/377½: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—11 p.m.]
403. Reference Department’s No. 218 of September 17, 7 p.m., and my No. 400 of September 23, 3 p.m., regarding Burma Road. Having asked Hollington Tong4 to confirm from Generalissimo understanding as communicated to Currie by Arnstein, I am now informed by Tong that the new road administration will exercise control over all traffic on the highway, that all transportation agencies hitherto [Page 733] operating independently along the road will be amalgamated under the administration and that all repair stations with their facilities are in process of being taken over by the same.5
- Chinese Vice Minister of Information.↩
- The Department’s telegram No. 234, October 1, 7 p.m. transmitted Dr. Currie’s message to Ambassador Gauss that “The objection which I had to the release of Captain Wilson has been removed” as a result of telegram No. 403, though the matter might be referred to General Magruder.↩