Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1920, Volume I

693.003/578: Telegram

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

Washington, June 26, 1920—6 p.m.

157. Your June 5, noon.

This Government is for its part ready to cooperate in bringing into effect the provisions of Article 4 of its Treaty of 1903⁸⁵ with reference to the abolishment of Internal taxes on imported goods and to that end is willing to join with the other Powers in an assurance to the Chinese Government in the sense suggested by the British Legation as quoted on page 2 of Legation’s despatch number 3207 April 7th.

Davis

85. Foreign Relations, 1903, p. 91.