893.00/12562: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Acting Secretary of State
Peiping, December 12, 1933—11
a.m.
[Received December 12—3:20 a.m.]
[Received December 12—3:20 a.m.]
906. Reference Department’s 389, December 6. Following telegram has been received from the Minister.
“December 11, 11 a.m. I propose to inform Foreign Office orally of Department’s views. British method of meeting situation by permitting search in presence of British naval officers seems to me to be a common-sense method. I wonder whether Department would agree to this method in view of British action and in view of physical difficulties attending arrangement for customs search.”
For the Minister:
Gauss