Office of the Historian

740.00115 Pacific War/5–1646: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in China

Washington, May 16, 1946—6 p.m.

138. AP22 dispatch from Mukden under date May 11 reports General Tu Li-ming23 had announced that his government with advice and assistance of US Army had “assumed responsibility for repatriation of 1,300,000 Japanese from Manchuria.”

Because of dearth of reliable data in Washington re number of Japanese military and civilians remaining in Manchuria Dept would be interested in obtaining any info Emb might be able to obtain re this matter. Perhaps Mukden could be helpful in this connection (sent to Nanking; repeated to Moscow as Dept’s 910).

It is recalled that Molotov24 informed the Secy at Moscow last Dec that Japanese soldiers in Manchuria had been removed to Soviet territory.

Acheson
  1. Associated Press.↩
  2. Commander of the Chinese Government’s Northeast Peace Preservation Corps.↩
  3. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩