793.94/7778: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, March 6, 1936—2
p.m.
[Received March 6—6:52 a.m.]
[Received March 6—6:52 a.m.]
51. My 50, March 5, noon.
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- This office is reliably informed that at an emergency Cabinet meeting called this morning to discuss the Communist situation in Shansi it was announced that a threat had been received from Japanese Military Attaché Isogai to the effect that the Japanese will not permit the sending of Central Government troops into Shansi to oppose the Communists unless the Chinese Government agrees to Hirota’s three point [Page 75] program and even in that case any troops thus despatched must be withdrawn when their mission against the Communists is completed.
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- Repeated to Peiping and Ambassador at Shanghai.
Peck