493.11/1368: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
744. Department’s 324, September 22, 1 p.m.
- 1.
- Consul General Cunningham30 telegraphs that a
personal letter from C. T. Wang to myself has been received and is
being transmitted to the Legation. He [quotes] the text as follows:
“American Minister to China: As Tsing Hua College is in urgent need of money for the opening of the fall term of school, I have the honor to request that you will kindly hand the above-named August and September installments of the Tsing Hua indemnity fund to Mr. Lo Chia-lun, the new president of Tsing Hua College savings.
I have the honor to request further that, beginning from October next, you will please deposit in the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank in Shanghai the proceeds from all the forthcoming installments of the money fund to the credit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the understanding that the money shall be expended solely in the manner now established for the support of Tsing Hua College and the Educational Mission in America. (Signed) Cheng-ting T. Wang.”
- 2.
- Check for August remission has been paid over to Lo Chia-lun.
- 3.
- Unless the Department should instruct otherwise, check for September will be similarly disposed of.
- 4.
- Should the Department approve, I propose sending the following
reply to Wang: [Page 552]
“I have already paid over the check for the installment accruing in August as you desired and shall be happy to pay over check accruing during September as requested by you. As regards subsequent checks, since the present arrangement has been understood to be provisional, I shall be glad if you will inform me from month to month in writing, addressed in care of the American consul general at Shanghai, of the bank in Peking authorized to give receipt in your behalf for the current installment.”