Office of the Historian

761.93/1770: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, May 1, 1944—8 p.m.
[Received May 2—6: 57 a.m.]

753. Consul [at] Tihwa in telegram April 27 reports information from Foreign Affairs Delegate as follows (Embassy’s 631, April 11, and 669, April 17):

Force of 1,000 Kazaks with machine guns and trench mortars have been besieging Fuwen since morning April 26. Reinforcements being sent to relieve besieged.

Gauss