793.003/476: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 17—9:10 a.m.]
1054. Following from Minister Johnson at Nanking:
“December 17, 4 p.m. Minister of Foreign Affairs informed me this afternoon that there is being coded a document on the subject of extraterritoriality which should be handed to the Department by Wu in about two days. Dr. Wang would not tell me anything of the nature of this document except to say that it would not change the situation existing by reason of the recent exchange of proposals; that it was not to be published and that it was intended to speed up the negotiations.”