493.11 N 15/236: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Perkins)
356. Department’s 335, October 4, 4 p.m. Following for guidance American members Joint Commission:
“Department is informed by the Trustees of Nanking University that under date of October 18 they wrote the Board of Directors communicating a decision reached by them on October 17 in part as follows: ‘(1) that no statement of losses or claims for reparations covering the damages sustained by the University of Nanking on March 24th, 1927, or during the disturbances of the succeeding months, be submitted by the Board of Trustees to the Department of State or to the Sino American Joint Commission.’”