793.94/3430: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 7—5:30 a.m.]
The following telegram has been sent to the Legation today:
“January 7, 1 p.m. According to information received by the Kailan Mining Administration, the Japanese troops that have been advancing toward Shanhaikwan for several days have now reached that place without resistance from Chinese forces and have taken over telephone and telegraph lines eastward from there.
Local Japanese military authorities will hold a review tomorrow morning in the Japanese concession of Japanese troops at Tientsin now numbering approximately 3,000. Repeated to Department.”