793.003/389: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 7—10:20 a.m.]
173. Department’s 194, August 5, noon, regarding statement by Dalton, Undersecretary, on negotiations with Chinese Government on extraterritoriality.
Foreign Office states that British Government through Lampson had informed Chinese Government last week of July that, as Lampson has already stated, his intention is, subject to political contingencies in China, to spend most of September in the south in order to continue discussions already begun on various outstanding questions including that of extraterritoriality; that the British Government has now nearly completed its study of the draft agreement; that Lampson expects [to] receive detailed instructions before his departure for Nanking, and that he hopes to make such progress as the general political situation in China will permit.
Foreign Office further stated that June 4th draft has not been discussed here with the Japanese. Foreign Office does not know whether Lampson has done so but thinks it likely he has. The Foreign Office has given copies of the draft in confidence to the Italian Embassy and Norwegian Legation here at their request. It expects to be approached by the Dutch Legation and will give a copy, if requested, as it would do to any other interested Government.49
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The proposal (c) of Department’s telegram referred to is being taken under consideration by the Foreign Office and I expect their decision in this regard today.
- In telegram No. 187, August 16, 1930, the Ambassador in Great Britain reported the explanation of the British Foreign Office that the draft given to representatives of other governments was not the Department’s draft of June 4 but was the Johnson-Lampson draft (see telegram No. 226, March 28, from the Minister in China, p. 418). The June 4 draft had been shown only to the Italian Ambassador, apparently sometime after August 1. (793.003/392.)↩