493.11/1335: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peking, June 26,
1928—6 p.m.
[Received 7:30 p.m.]
[Received 7:30 p.m.]
496. Your 201, June 21 [23], 2 p.m.
- 1.
- I have now received from Dr. C. T. Wang a telegram which, although garbled, apparently suggests that I hand June installment to Mr. Mei Yi-chi who, he states, is now temporarily acting president of Tsing Hua College.
- 2.
- I am informed by one of Wang’s unofficial representatives here that Mei has been appointed by the Nanking authorities in place of Stewart Yui who was acting president at the time of my 476, June 19, 3 p.m.
- 3.
- I have replied to Wang asking clarification of his message and inquiring whether, in case the installment is to be paid to Mei, Wang will “direct that it be expended in the manner now established for support of Tsing Hua and Educational Mission in America.”
- 4.
- I beg to request Department’s instructions whether, in the event of confirmation of Wang’s request that the installment be paid to Mei Yi-chi I should pay it over against his receipt, and whether in so doing I would be fully protected under the covering act of Congress and Executive order.
MacMurray