Office of the Historian

393.1111 Nelson, Bert N./75: Telegram

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

Peiping, March 17, 1931—6 p.m.
[Received March 17—9:40 a.m.]

142. Following from the Minister at Nanking:

“March 16, 5 p.m. Referring to Hankow’s March 14, noon,20a regarding ransom of Nelson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs has promised to devise means to permit despatch of medicine.”

For the Minister:
Perkins
  1. See telegram No. 21, March 14, 1 p.m. from the Consul General at Hankow, p. 941.↩