793.94/3103: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 8—9:20 a.m.]
1056. Following from Margetts, Chinchow:
“December 7, 6 p.m. Statement of observers, including American Military Attaché from Tokyo. Have spent the entire day personally checking units of Nineteenth, Twentieth Brigades and Thirteenth Artillery Regiment reported by Mukden Japanese headquarters to be Faku. In some instances we counted the soldiers, finding absolutely no discrepancies. Entire Twentieth Brigade is in immediate vicinity Chinchow. Referring to repair railway, Yingkow, statement of same was made by Chinese laborers under the supervision two British railway engineers and during presence one of our observers who returned late yesterday afternoon.”
Repeated to Department and Nanking.