Office of the Historian

861.77/2199: Telegram

The President of the Technical Board (Stevens) to the Secretary of State

Harbin, August 11, 1921—10 a.m.
[Received 4:38 p.m.]

In connection with my cipher telegram August 10, 10 a.m., through Tokyo33 in regard to the loan, following conditions must obtain:

1st. Technical Board must have control over all receipts and expenditures. 2d. Proceeds of loan to be placed in the hands of Board which shall have sole charge of expenditure for the benefit of railway in its judgment. 3d. Other than members of Board, no person shall be retained in the service of railway in opposition to determinations of that nature [Board]. The last condition is to prevent the Chinese from loading payroll with high positions for their men as they are now doing.

Stevens
  1. See telegram no. 272, Aug. 11, from the Chargé in Japan, supra.↩