893.51/3047: Telegram

The Minister in China (Crane) to the Secretary of State

363. Your November 2, 3 p.m. Phrase “stringent terms” used by press is based on its understanding that consortium will jeopardize China’s sovereignty by system of supervision national finance and railways and possibly of land tax. In official circular telegram of November 4, to provincial authorities Cabinet assailed consortium holding it up as bogey to induce disbandment troops; also Premier made an attack on the consortium in an interview with press men on November 6, see Associated Press report of that date.

Crane