693.119/315a suppl.: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Tenney)

116. Supplementing Department’s No. 91 April 23rd noon to which reply is awaited. The Department is further informed that [Page 743] in addition to Belgian consignment of arms delivered at Tientsin there have been delivered to a Chinese arsenal from Great Britain steel materials for the manufacture of munitions. Report by telegraph whether you consider that complaints of violation of embargo by Belgian, British, Italian, and Japanese interests are well founded.

Polk