811.2361A/8–144: Telegram
The Consul General at Vladivostok (Ward) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:20 p.m.]
34. Diplomatic agent91 has just informed me that on July 29 at 18 hours 34 minutes 150 East Meridian time, an American airplane B–29, number 32, landed on an airdrome in the vicinity of Ugolna, about 30 kilometers to the north of Vladivostok.
The crew, which consists of 11 persons, is in good health.
Before landing the crew destroyed all documents, radio equipment and bomb sight.
Pursuant to international law, the crew has been interned.
[Page 983]He is of the opinion that this airplane took part in the bombing of Mukden and he has reason to believe that the cause of the landing was shortage of fuel.
Commanding officer of the airplane has requested access to me and tentative arrangements have been made for my travel to Ugolna tomorrow afternoon.
Repeated to Moscow.
- Semen Petrovich Dyukarev, representative in Vladivostok of the Soviet People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.↩