793.003/729: Telegram
The Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 12—12:05 p.m.]
184. My 181, June 11, 1 p.m.68 The Foreign Office states that Nelson T. Johnson has been kept informed of Lampson’s treaty negotiations, except possibly that C. T. Wang, when he agreed personally to the draft proposal of the Tientsin reservation, was not optimistic at all as to its approval by his Government. Correspondingly, in [Page 877] agreeing personally to a 10-year duration of the treaty, Lampson pointed out specifically his lack of instructions from his Government on this highly mooted point. The Foreign Office views obviously with concern the status of British residents in the case of the treaty safeguards and the Shanghai reservations being conterminous.
- Not printed; it reported the Lampson-Wang tentative agreement, June 6, on the text of a treaty.↩