793.003/416
The Department of State to the Chinese Legation65
Memorandum
The Department of State is informed that the British Minister to China has laid before the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the National Government of China a draft of proposals in connection with negotiations on the subject of extraterritorial jurisdiction. The Department takes this occasion to inform the Chinese Legation that the Department has been informed with regard to the contents of the draft of proposals referred to above, that the Department has prepared a similar, though not identical, draft which in the majority of its features corresponds with the British draft, and that the Department will be prepared to resume conversations, in continuance of the discussions already begun with a view to the conclusion of a treaty between the United States and China, and, in connection therewith, to submit proposals, in October.
- Copy transmitted to the British Embassy on September 13.↩