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793.003/240: Telegram

The Chargé in China ( Perkins ) to the Secretary of State

Peiping , January 2, 1930—5 p.m.
[Received January 3—10:55 a.m.]

6. Legation’s 1204, December 30, 5 p.m.,36 paragraph 2. British Minister left today for Nanking to initiate negotiations having as their aim the gradual relinquishment of British extraterritorial rights.

Perkins
  1. Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. ii, p. 669.↩