893.12/35: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 9—9:50 p.m.]
Referring Department’s July 31, 6 p.m., a letter in the sense of the Department’s instruction was today forwarded to the Director of Quarantine. Dr. Wu Lien-teh, the Director, has now accompanied the League of Nations delegation to Japan as the quarantine authority of China. It is stated that he is emphasizing the service that he has established here in Shanghai. It is understood that he will return to Shanghai about the 14th. In the meantime no quarantine service is being put into effect at this port since the port health officer under the regulations has not [functioned] since the 31st of July.
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- The Consul did not receive a copy of the quarantine regulations nor did the Consular Corps body as a unit take any action until August 1st, when the Consul was authorized to transmit the regulations with the inquiry as to the attitude that was to be assumed by that body. This went forward by post on August 4th.33
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- Department’s paragraph 4 is covered by my August 4, 2 [5] p.m.
- Regulations not printed; they were transmitted to the Department by the Consul General at Shanghai in his despatch No. 7043, July 23, 1930; received August 14 (893.12/39).↩