893.00 Nanking/242: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, March 28,
1928—11 a.m.
[Received March 28—1:10 a.m.]
[Received March 28—1:10 a.m.]
Your telegram of March 24, 6 p.m., through the Legation.
- 1.
- Tentative agreement between British Minister and General Huang referred to in 1 (c) of your telegram was rejected by the British Government; and, after attempting for some days to find new basis of agreement, British Minister abandoned negotiations and left for Peking March 25th.
- 2.
- Although considerable very useful preliminary work has been done by Cunningham and Paxton, the whole matter of a settlement still remains nebulous. Huang is now in Nanking, but I have reason to hope he will return shortly for the purpose of direct discussion with me.
- 3.
- I shall continue to be guided by the Department’s desires in this matter as discussed with you last autumn and as referred to in your fourth [third?] paragraph.
- 4.
- Repeated to Peking.
MacMurray