893.51/3169: Telegram
The Minister in China (Crane) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 31—8:26 a.m.]
470. Your 397 December 28, noon. Following from group representative telegraphed to American group, New York; Legation considers it to be correct: [Page 674]
“Referring to your telegram 21st, advise American group present position of the Chinese Government with reference to German issued Hukuang bonds in the hands of neutrals and Allies not yet on the list of approved bonds is as follows: holders must produce substantial evidence that they purchased the bonds previous to China’s declaration of war by filing prescribed form with the Chinese Minister, London. If such evidence is satisfactory to the Legation lawyer the relative bonds and coupons will be considered valid.”
[For correspondence relating to the loan of $4,000,000 by American, British, French, and Japanese banks on security of receipts from the customs surtax for famine relief, see the following telegrams, pages 728–729 and 730:
- From the Minister in China, December 1, 1920, 4 p.m.
- To the Minister in China, December 3, 1920, 5 p.m.
- From the Minister in China, December 16, 1920, 5 p.m.
- From the Minister in China, January 22, 1921, 4 p.m.]