Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The Far East: China, Volume VII

893.00/10–2347: Telegram

The Consul at Tihwa (Paxton) to the Secretary of State

Tihwa, October 23, 1947—4 p.m.
[Received October 24—8:30 p.m.]

61. Garrison Commander Sung says that according to Kazak reports, supported by Chinese intelligence agents and relayed over latter’s portable radio, on October 16 about 100 trucks transporting over 3000 heavily armed troops accompanied by 6 tanks entered northern Ashan zone from the west at Chimunai and reached Puerhtsin (see map enclosed Tihwa⁴³ at Puerhtsin and route thither was merely conjectured).

2. Ili troops have no source other than Russia of reported matériel particularly tanks which could not be claimed to have been captured from Chinese Army during the insurrection as it had none there.

Paxton

43. Reference is to Tihwa despatch 16, June 17; neither despatch nor map is printed.