793.003/481: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes)
331. 1. Chinese Legation handed Department on December 19 a memorandum in regard to negotiations on extraterritorial jurisdiction.
[Here follows a summary of the memorandum of December 19, 1930, from the Chinese Legation, printed on page 497.]
The Department on December 27 handed the Chinese Legation a memorandum in reply, the first paragraph of which reads as follows:
[Here follows the text of the first paragraph and a list of the correspondence cited in the second, third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs of the memorandum of December 27, 1930, to the Chinese Legation, printed on page 500.]
The memorandum then continues as follows:
[Here follows the text of the last four paragraphs of the memorandum under reference.]
Department has telegraphed text to the American Minister to China directing him to inform Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs and hand him informally a copy.
You should inform the Foreign Office in confidence of the above.
2. Department expects to telegraph you shortly certain comments.