893.74/558: Telegram
Mr. Manton Davis to the Radio Corporation of America11
Number 3. …
Subject: Communications. Official negotiations delayed on account of serious illness Yeh Kung-ch’o, Minister of Communications, China. Unofficially we are making satisfactory progress. Clarification agreement probably will not be very difficult after Chinese decide question to proceed or not with our projects. Opposition Japanese powerful. They have very great influence with Tuan Chi-jui, Acting President, China, and are making strong effort to have our contract cancelled. All Chinese technical services, including Yeh Kung-ch’o, Minister of Communications, China, and Tsiang Tsing-yi, Director General of Telegraphs, China, are working for us hard. We have agreed our stations will accept traffic for Japan and transmit all of the same to Mitsui-Peking Radio Station, it to accept traffic for America and transmit all of the same to nearest Federal stations, division all charges in each case in proportion to services, free competition remainder of world. Tsiang Tsing-yi, Director General of Telegraphs, China, strongly of opinion controversies can be settled this basis …
- Copy left at the Department of State Mar. 24, 1925, by William D. Brown, general attorney for the Radio Corporation of America. In a letter of Mar. 31, 1925, to Assistant Secretary of State Harrison (file No. 893.74/556), Mr. Brown stated that the traffic arrangement suggested by Mr. Davis had the approval of the Radio Corporation of America, the Federal Telegraph Company of Delaware, and of the president of the Federal Telegraph Company of California.↩