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811.7393 C 73/40: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)

Washington, February 11, 1930—noon.

52. Legation’s 57, January 17, noon. Commercial Pacific Cable Company informs Department it has been requested by Chinese Government to send a representative to China to negotiate renewal of landing rights in China for its cable. Company states it is sending William J. Deegan, Vice President, and Maynard Dodd, General Superintendent, to negotiate renewal. These men are due to arrive in Shanghai early in March. Please render them all appropriate assistance. Inform Shanghai. See Department’s instruction of October 26, 1925.2

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