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Memorandum by the Minister in China (Johnson) of a Conversation With the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs (C. T. Wang)76
In the course of conversation this evening Dr. Wang stated that he had been doing every thing that he could to prevent any action being taken by the Government that would injure the business that foreigners had already established in the interior. He said that in the future, however, and until Extraterritoriality was discontinued foreign firms would not be permitted to make further extensions of their business into the interior. I inferred from this that foreign firms would not be allowed to hold land in the interior directly or indirectly [Page 485] for the purpose of establishing thereon warehouses or agencies for the disposal of their goods.
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Counselor of Legation in his despatch No. 671, December 15, 1930; received January 15, 1931.↩