Office of the Historian

793.003/406: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, September 8, 1930—noon.
[Received September 8—10:55 a.m.]

789. Your 310, Sept. 7, 1 p.m.60 My understanding of Lampson’s instructions convinces me that it is not possible to consider deferring presentation of draft now. He arrives in Nanking September 9th and will present draft as he told me. I have asked Adams61 to read to him Department’s 310. I have asked Adams to tell Lampson that I am saying to you that I understand his instructions preclude postponement of presentation of draft now and that I assume Department will call in Chinese Chargé d’Affaires and inform him of its knowledge of draft without giving him a copy.

Johnson
  1. Quoted in telegram No. 225, September 7, to the Ambassador in Great Britain, supra.↩
  2. Walter A. Adams, Consul at Nanking.↩