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The Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( MacMurray )
Washington
,
April 4,
1927
.
No. 479
Sir: The Department refers to the Legation’s despatch No. 891 of January 19, 1927, and approves the Legation’s instruction to the American Consul General at Canton in regard to the presentation of claims of American citizens growing out of piracies.
It is assumed that the American Consulate General in taking claims up with the Nationalist Government is doing so only for the purpose of endeavoring to effect a settlement in accordance with the existing arrangement for local settlement with the provincial authorities.
I am [etc.]
For the Secretary of State:
Joseph
C. Grew