893.113 Radio/11: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai ( Cunningham ) to the Secretary of State

The following telegram has been sent to the Legation:

“79, May 16, 3 p.m. The Nationalist Government issued the prohibition on April 13, 1929, against the further importation of radio equipment and materials,12 which notice was only brought to the attention of American importers when they attempted to enter shipments from America. There is at present over one hundred thousand dollars worth of all American radio materials on the high seas. This prohibition apparently originated with the War Department. Chinese Maritime Customs is attempting to have the prohibition altered by allowing amateur radio equipment to come in.

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This one of several prohibitions which the Chinese Government has recently issued without giving due notice to shippers.

Repeated to the Department.”

Cunningham
  1. Copy of regulations, published on April 13, 1929, by the Chinese Ministry of Finance was transmitted to the Department by the Consul General at Shanghai in his despatch No. 6207, May 23; received June 21, 1929 (893.113 Radio/21).