861.77/2026: Telegram
The Acting President of the Technical Board (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 6—9:57 a.m.]
The Department will receive telegram from Legation at Peking outlining plan for the United States Government to take over the Czecho-Slovak obligation to Chinese Eastern Railway. Aside from impracticability of the plan any financial assistance without absolute control would only further involve railway.
Referring to my cable of March 22, 5 p.m.90 only 1,500 tons foodstuffs moved into the Chita district since March 4 on account of no cash credit arrangement and no eastward movement of raw material across frontier to create credit. Plague situation west, south and east of Harbin good but still 100 deaths Harbin daily.
- Not printed.↩