Office of the Historian

893.156/61: Telegram

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

Peiping, November 22, 1932—4 p.m.
[Received November 22—11:20 a.m.]

1270. Your mail instruction No. 699, February 19 (no file number, Legation file 852 Shanghai foreshore regulations). A note has now been received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs referring to previous correspondence and requesting that interested American[s] be instructed to comply with the revised foreshore regulations promulgated by the municipality of Shanghai on July 31, 1931.

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In view of the receipt of this further note, should Legation now take the action directed in the Department’s instruction referred to above?

For the Minister:
Perkins